"You're saying you're content with the left-wing conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratically re-elected as President?

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That's a question provoked by something Sam Harris says in this video. His instant answer is "It's not left wing. Liz Cheney is not left wing." 

Pushed with the question, "You're` content with a conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratically elected President?" Harris stutters and gets out: "It was a conspiracy out in the open." Then: "But it doesn't matter — what part's conspiracy, what part's out in the open." More stumbling, then a retreat into outer space: "If there was an asteroid hurtling toward earth and we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation of what we could do to deflect its course, is that a conspiracy?"

The video clip I'm seeing on Twitter ends there. I would respond to "Is that a conspiracy?" with Is that an analogy? 

Wow, you can actually watch Sam Harris self-destruct his career in 2 min 20 seconds.

"Taking down the New York Post's [laptop article]? That's a Left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump. Absolutely it was. But I think it was warranted."pic.twitter.com/0bIoWJDdNa

— Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly) August 18, 2022

Is the fight against Trump pro-democracy or anti-democracy? There seem to be a lot of Trump haters who purport to be saving democracy who strongly oppose democracy when it comes in the form of voting for Trump. 

The logic seems to be something like: It became necessary to destroy democracy in order to save it.

ADDED: Oh! I see those are the Triggernometry podcasters. They were on Joe Rogan recently. That made it easy to find the full show with Sam Harris. The relevant part begins around 36 minutes in:

What comes after "If there was an asteroid hurtling toward earth and we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation of what we could do to deflect its course, is that a conspiracy?"?

He says: "We have a massive problem. We have an existential threat. Politically speaking, I consider Trump an existential threat to our democracy."

The podcaster — Konstantin Kisin — begins, "But if you destroy democracy in the process of protecting democracy," and Harris interrupts: "But no." Long pause. Harris says he wasn't suggesting that "we should stuff ballots or actually break the machinery of democracy, but" — and he stops to think.

What can he say? It's an "existential threat," he'd said, so wouldn't that mean you'd do anything? 

He shifts to a verbose non-answer: "Political opinion is already being just completely inundated with misinformation, biased takes, half truths, outright lies, or just the amplification of bad or misleading information based on, you know, the algorithm." 

Ha. He should add to that list evasive non-answers to serious questions. 

He says, "It's already just an abattoir of opinion. Right? And now the question is, you know, what can you do with your own biases and you own, uh, to get the outcome you think is better, not just for yourself, personally, but for the world?"

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