45 different men have served as US President. And 11 of them have been voted out of office. Losing is not in itself something to be ashamed of. It happens. About a quarter of the time.
But Donald Trump is the only POTUS in history to deny and try to overturn his loss. #TrumpLost
Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush all spent their post-Presidential careers after being voted out as respected elder statesmen. They all used their experience to help those who came to office after them in one way or another.
In contrast, Donald Trump is going to spend the rest of his sad life pathologically denying the fact that he lost while trying to overturn both his loss and dismantling democracy itself.
Getting voted out of office is not the thing that makes a former US President a “loser.”
And, for anyone who you know who listens to disinformation and who has doubts about whether or not Trump really did lose the election, here are a bunch of easy to verify facts that corroborate the fact that Trump, no matter what and his surrogates say, really did lose. #TrumpLost
How did Trump take over the Republican Party so completely?
I often criticize Trump’s negative attributes but I am about to compliment one skill that he possesses which all bullies have. He can smell weakness and fear from a mile away.
Remember back in 2015 when a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was a man of courage, that Ted Cruz was a Constitutional Conservative and that Lindsey Graham stood for actual things? We thought that. We we were wrong. Trump never saw thaf. He saw through them and he was right.
Trump attacks people. But he focuses his attacks on people he sees as weak. He doesn’t tend to continue attacking people who consistently stand up to him. Which is one reason he attacks Mike Lee and Lindsey Graham and not so much Mitt Romney.
Okay, #DecertifyArizona loons. You want some more truth that will make your day even worse? Here goes.
Trump lost Arizona because he lost the places where most of the people in the state live. Sand doesn’t vote.
You guys think that Arizona is Trump country, don’t you? You think there’s no way that he could have lost, not even after a bunch of other Trump supporters confirmed that Biden got more votes. Right?
Well, why did Trump’s party lose so much in Arizona in recent years?
Another thing none of you guys are ever able to address or explain. Yes, Trump did worse in Arizona in 2020 than he did in 2016; he lost. But in terms of point margin, he did even worse in 2016 than Romney did in 2012.
It wasn’t that long ago that conservatives used to take swipes at “entitlement culture.” The fact that some kids felt entitled to have success and were being sheltered from the reality of the fact we sometimes don’t get our way with “participation trophies.”
Well …
Many of those same people went on to become coddlers of the most entitled brat who ever lived, who also happens to be one of the oldest brats who ever lived. A man who can’t cope with the reality that, sometimes in life, we don’t always win. We don’t always get our way.
Some tried to soothe the screaming little big guy by telling him what he wanted to hear. Others learned that there was a booming business and political market for telling his caretakers what they wanted to hear. That he didn’t lose.
Of the 25 states that Trump won in the 2020 election, 20 of them hadn’t voted for a Democrat in a Presidential election in the 21st Century. He mostly won the states that always go red. The exceptions are FL, IA and OH, which Trump flipped red in 2016, and IN and NC.
In contrast, only 15 of the 25 states that Biden won in 2020 hadn’t voted for a Republican in the 20th century.
Of the 25 2020 red states:
9 have been red since 1968
4 have been red since 1980
1 has been red since 1996
6 have been red since 2000
2 have been red since 2012
3 have been red since 2016
If someone crosses our borders illegally, their nationality should have NOTHING to do with how they’re treated. If we deport people of one group, we should deport people from all. And if we don’t mass deport certain nationalities, we shouldn’t mass deport others either.
On the other hand, while I am sensitive to both the plight of the Haitian immigrants as well as to the anger some have that they’re being deported, there’s also this fact: you can’t just have thousands of people walking into a country at will. Not just our country. ANY country.
There are good people all over the world who are suffering and who deserve a better life. But that doesn’t mean that everybody in the world can just come here and stay here any time they want. And that applies to all people of any nationality and over any of our borders.