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The throughline here is simple: Trump’s brand of grievance politics was already starting to boomerang in visible, expensive ways. The Georgia fight showed how his election lies were poisoning not just democracy but the business climate around it. And the legal shadows around Trump and his operation were not fading into the background; they were hardening into the new normal.
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The backlash to Georgia’s new election law deepened by April 5, 2021, after Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game out of Atlanta and corporations and voting-rights groups kept pressing critics’ case. Supporters called the measure an election-integrity fix; opponents said it was a response to false claims about the 2020 vote and a sign of how far the political fight over elections had spread.
April 5 brought more evidence that Trump’s stolen-election crusade was still poisoning Republican politics well into the spring. The Georgia backlash was the clearest example, but the larger story was the same: Trump’s falsehoods kept forcing allies into defensive, costly positions. What started as an effort to keep his ego intact was by then distorting actual policy choices and party strategy.