Okay well, I don't think you even read my post if this was your takeaway, but let me restate what I was
actually saying:
1) It is entirely the prerogative of Alaskan voters to decide they'd like to go the way of California, Washington and Oregon, as well as select counties in Texas and elsewhere. If they think voting for Democrats in hopes of alleviating their financial pains (even though it's been proven over and over that the Democrats will both turn everything they touch to shit and fight tooth & nail to stay in control even long after the place hits rock bottom) then on their heads be it. That is not in dispute, and it is not for me to forbid Alaskans from destroying themselves, although I do reserve the right to criticize their decisions if I find those decisions to be boneheaded as surely as they may criticize the government of Canada when it fucks up (which is every day).
THAT SAID, Murkowski had an obvious stake in making sure Alaskans voted her way when the ballot measure to switch to RCV + jungle primaries came up. And her staff have openly admitted to putting their thumbs on that scale for her benefit to Project Veritas. Between the narrowness of the measure's victory and Trump actually improving his 2020 margin in Alaska compared to 2016 (taking the state both times), I don't believe we can just take all this as evidence that Alaska actually doesn't like Trump or right-wing populism in general.
2) At no point did I ever suggest an audit of the election, or that the Democrat candidate used fraud to win. This is
the whole fucking point of the RCV + jungle primary combo: the uniparty essentially legally rigs the election and ensures that not only will they always get the outcome they want, but that it happens in a completely above-board and lawfully unimpeachable manner. Alaska will now be eternally represented by Democrats and the Murkowskis, with anti-establishment populists shut out in the cold, until either things get bad enough that the Alaskans decide to revert to the old one-man-one-vote system or America itself comes to an end. And there is no audit that will fix that.
Let me get right back to the CPC leadership election here to demonstrate, because we have the slightly less shit half of the equation (ranked choice voting) down pat.
If the polls are even halfway accurate, Pierre Poilievre is set to dominate his rivals and become the next leader of the Tories (and hopefully also the next PM of Canada). Now, this is good! He is no Bernier, much less a Trump or DeSantis, but we could certainly have done much worse: if I must compare his 'basedness' to American politicians, I would rank him next to Cruz or perhaps Youngkin on a good day. He demonstrates how conservatives can overcome the odds in an RCV system - man's been building his profile & laying the groundwork to eventually take the leadership since the Harper years, and has been a consistently aggressive anti-Trudeau voice since Trudeau's premiership began. Also, even squisher Conservatives are sufficiently tired of milquetoast Liberal-in-blue-tie leaders like O'Toole to give him a chance now.
BUT! What if we were so braindead as to throw open primaries into the mix? Well, look at the polling for which candidate 'all Canadians' would prefer. Jean Charest consistently leads those polls, not Poilievre. And Charest is quite literally a Liberal, not just in the sense that he's the leftmost of the candidates running and is practically an older Trudeau in a blue tie, but he's a member of the Quebec Liberal Party on the provincial level and was Premier of Quebec as part of that party for almost 10 years. If the leadership election were open to anyone with or without a Conservative membership, ie. it was a jungle primary like Alaska just had and like California always has, Charest would stomp Poilievre thanks to all the Grit and NDP voters rushing to make sure the country will never be in danger of falling to an 'alt-right neofascist' - he couldn't crack more than 20% of the actual Conservative voters' votes, but he wouldn't need to in this scenario. Trudeau would publicly celebrate how the Tories have 'rejected hate and division', then privately have a good laugh with his WEF pals as he prepares to crush yet another uninspiring Liberal-in-blue-tie figure hated by the actual Tory base. No amount of auditing would change that, either.
Do you see the problem here? If you can, then surely you can see its mirror image in Alaska now and coming in November, in Cali, in Washington and wherever else in the US there are open/jungle primaries.