Republicans won’t commit to honoring vote results this fall. That’s troubling | Robert Reich

More and more Republican candidates are effectively inviting their supporters to contest electoral losses in the streets

One of the most horrific legacies of Trump is the unwillingness of Republican candidates to commit to being bound by election results.

Among Republican candidates for US senate, Ted Budd in North Carolina, Blake Masters in Arizona, Kelly Tshibaka in Alaska, and JD Vance in Ohio have all refused to commit to accepting the election results this November, according to news reports.

I say to President-elect Bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside, and may God bless his stewardship of the country ... Neither he nor I anticipated this long and difficult road. Certainly neither of us wanted it to happen. Yet it came, and now it has ended resolved, through the honored institutions of our democracy. Now the supreme court has spoken. Let there be no doubt, while I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it ... And tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com