Joy D'Angelo
13 min readOct 21, 2022
Biden’s acceptance of the Democratic Nomination. (Left to right) Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris & Douglas Emhoff, 8/20/20
(Left to right) Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris & Douglas Emhoff, 8/20/20. Photo by Adam Schultz (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

As we count down to the American 2022 Midterm Elections, one of the less discussed games being played by Republicans is a round of classic whataboutism. At first glance, this particular trend seemed somewhat random. Whenever someone on social media points out to a MAGA Republican that Trump is still claiming he won the elections some two years after the 2020 election, the MAGA person claims that Democratic candidates have done the same thing in the past. They would then give a list of “examples” supposedly…