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JD Vance's spin on the Big Lie is more fascist than Trump's original

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Sen. JD Vance , R- Ohio , has been coy about echoing his boss's false claims that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election.

Amanda Marcotte : Vance 's version of the Big Lie may be even more dangerous than the original rolled out by Trump in 2020 .

She says he's arguing that tech companies are obliged to publish right-wing disinformation, and their failure to do so means democracy is forfeit.

Marcotte says Vance is not nearly as clever as he seems to think he is.

Julian Zelizer : In this view, he and his are the only legitimate rulers, and therefore there is no limit on what they can do to seize power.

Zelizer says Vance and his billionaire benefactor, Peter Thiel , are deeply involved in a pseudo-intellectual movement of enemies of democracy.

He says it's part of a larger ideological rejection of democracy, setting up MAGA as more than a personality cult around Trump .