Illinois GOP 6th district congressional candidates flunk democracy test

Millions of Americans believe Democrats stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump and his efforts to remain president were laudatory, not treasonous.

Likely no Republican office holders or candidates truly believe those views. But they parrot them, either outright or by innuendo, to remain politically viable with Republican primary voters.

That applies to four of six Republicans seeking the GOP nomination to challenge either Democratic incumbent Sean Casten or his challenger Marie Newman to become Illinois’ representative in the 118th Congress next January.

Niki Conforti of Glen Ellyn doubts Biden’s election because "The 2020 election exposed vulnerabilities in our election process that brings the validity of that election into question and supports further investigation." Somehow Conforti missed that ‘further investigation’ is well underway in the House January 6 Commission cataloging Trump’s unrelenting efforts to destroy American democracy with his January 6 insurrection.

Scott Kaspar of Orland Park was particularly snide, saying “Biden currently serves as president” but refused to say his election was legitimate. Doing so would instantly get Kaspar removed from his VIP status as a regular Trump visitor at Mar-a-Lago.

Rob Cruz of Oak Lawn, like Kaspar, refused to acknowledge Biden’s election was legitimate.

Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso lamented “The nation will never know if Biden was fairly elected.”

Only Oak Lawn resident Catherine A. O'Shea and Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, without expressing any criticism of Trump’s January 6 insurrection actions, admitted Biden was legitimately elected.

Sadly for America democracy, Republican office seekers thruout the nation mimic the GOP playbook in Illinois’ 6th District.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked after a session of the Constitutional Convention, "What kind of a government have you given us?” he replied, "A democracy, if you can keep it."

Two hundred thirty-five years on the answer is still in doubt.