Nothing makes me believe something faster than when it's censored by the Gen Z content moderators of major social media platforms:
I mean, this tweet isn't even all that controversial!
You can acknowledge that there's "cheating" in an election while still more or less arguing that the election itself is "safe and secure."
That's sort of the thoughtful middle ground that many observers take when it comes to U.S. elections: There is plainly malfeasance, it should absolutely be fixed, but it doesn't mean that the election results are illegitimate.
The issue, of course, is that even if an election is 100% legit, the appearance of illegitimacy can do as much damage as actual voter fraud.
If your election system lacks meaningful security protocols, if the people running it are plainly hyper-partisan, if authorities are resolutely determined to keep the system opaque and incomprehensible — e.g., if they can't count all the ballots on election night! — then voter confidence plummets and you enter into the land of total civic instability, which is a very bad place to be.
This kind of situation is essentially the equivalent of a husband coming home two hours late looking shifty and guilty and awkward; when his wife asks him where he's been, he says, "None of your business! You don't have a right to know!"
It doesn't really matter if he's done anything wrong or not, because he looks extremely guilty, and the marriage will be destabilized as a result.
