Trump’s move to revoke the clearances of Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor was less about paperwork and more about drawing battle lines. It signaled that disputes over election security had crossed from policy into loyalty tests, where questioning the narrative could be branded as subversion. Krebs, once praised for calming fears about 2020 interference, is now framed by critics as the man who decided which alarms the public would never hear. Taylor, already infamous for defying Trump from within, finds his past transformed into a dossier—every memo, speech, and affiliation reinterpreted through the lens of suspicion.
Tulsi Gabbard’s remarks about intelligence warnings on vulnerable voting systems poured fuel on an already smoldering fire. If officials understood the risks yet muted them, then the real crisis isn’t just technical—it’s moral. The deeper wound is not whether machines could be hacked, but whether Americans were quietly deemed too fragile to face the truth.
