Another Atlantic Hoax: False Claim That Trump Will End Elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : I say, we have to have voter ID.
56% : Trump was speaking to a "Believers and Ballots" event, aimed at encouraging Christians to become involved in the democratic process.
54% : Our goal will be, as I said, one day voting with paper ballots, proof of citizenship, and a thing called voter ID.
51% : I say, look, we're going to fix our laws with voting, we have to start with voter ID.
48% : But with voting, one of your most important things you can do, maybe in many ways your most important, they don't want to approve voter ID.
44% : As he often does, however, Trump left just enough room in what he said for plausible deniability.
42% : Both interpretations lead to the same conclusion: that Trump is telegraphing his authoritarian intentions in plain sight, hoping to sever the link between voters and government policy.
40% : "You won't have to do it anymore," Trump said at the Turning Point Believers' Summit in Florida.
38% : There is, in fact, a third possibility -- in fact, a probability: that Trump was joking with Christian voters who are generally wary of participation in electoral politics, telling them that if he wins the election he will make voting so secure that their votes will no longer be needed in future to overcome the possibility of cheating by Democrats.
37% : A second and slightly more charitable interpretation of his remarks is that Trump believes his presidency will entrench so many pro-Christian policies into the United States government that no future election could realistically undo his transformation of the country.
29% : First, Trump could be implying that there won't be any future elections if he comes to power.
8% : The Atlantic is also responsible for the "suckers and losers" hoax -- the unsubstantiated claim that Trump once mocked veterans and dead soldiers, which was refuted by nearly a dozen witnesses, including those who dislike Trump.
8% : The idea that Trump will somehow end elections fits the Democratic Party's message that Trump is a "threat to democracy" -- a message that conservatives believe contributed to a dangerously hateful political climate that led to the assassination attempt against Trump earlier this month.

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