Joe Biden received 306 Electoral Votes. For Trump’s fanciful scenario to be true, it would require fraud in five separate states on a scale beyond anything that has been seen in American history.
And Republicans are willing to believe it, because Dear Leader says it’s true.
Trump has been overwhelmingly unpopular for the past four years. His public approval has never risen above 50%, except with the notoriously pro-Republican agency Rasmussen.
Let’s not forget than a Rasmussen approval of 50% or greater was considered noteworthy enough for Trump to practically throw himself a goddamned ticker-tape parade on Twitter
So if you look at all of the circumstantial evidence indicating that the American people truly and deeply hate Donald Trump with the fire of a thousand suns, it would make far MORE sense for him to have lost the presidential election than for him to have won it
We know that Trump is incapable of admitting failure under any circumstances.
He also lies without compunction. And his base will defend him, no matter how ridiculous it makes them look.
So it makes sense that Trump lost. And it also makes sense that his base won’t admit it.
This is why MAGAts insist that we can’t declare an “official” winner until the electors cast their votes on Dec. 14th. I do not expect their mission to succeed.
But there’s a whole month left between that & the Inauguration, & God only knows what Trump & his goons will try next.
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The GOP has long supported the Electoral College for giving disproportionate weight to states that lean Republican.
Their reasons for supporting it have VERY RECENTLY shifted to include their ability to pressure individual states to choose electors that support their candidates.
The current GOP plan is absolutely an end-run around democratic rule.
Who cares how the people voted when the electors support Trump?
Who cares what the nation’s laws are when the Supreme Court supports Trump?
- Taken as a whole, the Democratic base is extremely cautious & extremely conservative (with a lower case c)
- It’s been over 40 years since a progressive leftist was able to win a plurality of primary votes when a moderate centrist was available
- The main reason Joe Biden won the election was COVID-19. Had Democrats been required to campaign against Trump’s record up to that point (which included 20,000 documented lies, children in cages, and an impeachment by the House of Representatives) it would’ve been a dead heat.
- Most Democrats, regrettably, hate to fight. Too many Democrats have convinced themselves that refusing to do so makes them appear virtuous. Hell, the most successful attack ads against Trump came from the anti-Trump Republicans in the Lincoln Project.
I mean, just follow the events of the last 10 days. Look at who Donald Trump is, and what he thinks of us.
He has utter contempt for our democracy, our republic, and our voters. Nothing matters to him unless HE WINS. If that doesn’t happen, Trump will destroy whatever he can.
I’m sure Michael Conway is trolling us, and I do I feel a bit suckered by taking the bait.
But how fucking DAFT would any of us have to be to worry about “dividing the country further” after watching Trump, McConnell, & the rest of the GOP dance on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s grave?
I sincerely hope that Joe Biden will win the election and be inaugurated in January. But Trump’s base isn’t going to just go away.
They will still disregard everything the mainstream media tells them, and invent their own fanciful stories about Biden, Harris, and AOC.
As Trump’s base has repeatedly demonstrated, they are entirely untethered by reality. They will soldier on with memories of a nation under the firm grip of Dear Leader, a selfless idealist who sacrificed all to make America great again. If only the Deep State hadn’t stopped him!
Donald Trump has spent his entire Presidency, if not his whole adult life, crafting a narrative he hopes to convince us is the “truth”.
He views it as an unforgivable offense if others offer facts that run counter to his narrative.
Above all: the narrative must be preserved.
I think about this in light of his debate performance, & his reaction to the still-unseen Lesley Stahl interview for 60 MINUTES. How much it clearly terrifies him to let anyone else pass judgment on him, tell his story, or get in the last word.
He’s like a toddler: “No. No. No!”
Now that Trump is, at least nominally, the Leader of the Free World, he feels genuinely entitled to present his narrative as fact without being challenged by anybody. It’s why he constantly complains that the MSM gangs up on him, which his acolytes are all too willing to believe.
Here’s the thing about Trump supporters: they all believe that virtually all of the media is lying to them, virtually all of the time.
That is a necessary precondition to being a Trump supporter. If that supposition turned out not to be true, being pro-Trump would make no sense.
Imagine having a worldview where EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE is contingent on such a shadowy conspiracy theory. Where “The Deep State is out to get Trump” is the linchpin of every political view that guides you.
You can’t prove it; not really. But your views make no sense without it.
HOW WE GOT HERE
Step 1: TALK RADIO
R: “I will listen to Rush Limbaugh because he is entertaining and I agree with his views. He makes me feel smart by telling me things that the liberal media won’t.”