How do I know the 2020 election was on the up and up? The only way anybody knows. I have enough faith in the freedom and diversity of our information market to believe the evidence would be reported if it existed. Even mainstream outlets would be dragged to acknowledge the truth. Also because many of the things Trumpists legitimately complain about aren’t illegal and don’t amount to vote fraud. CIA veterans and the media lying about the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop isn’t vote fraud. State voting rules being changed through dubious procedures isn’t vote fraud and doesn’t invalidate votes cast in good faith.
The appeal of “rigged” to Donald Trump is obvious—it lets him continue to command the airwaves rather than concede and disappear as losing candidates usually do. Oh wait I wrote these words in 2016 when he was losing to
Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Trump hints at riots if he is denied the nomination—oh wait, I wrote these words in 2016 too.
The big surprise wasn’t that the 2016 game plan was still the game plan in 2020, but how much his opponents’ behavior had come to resemble Mr. Trump’s in the meantime. If called before the bar of justice for his 2020 claims, he’ll have one semi-plausible answer: Why should anyone believe the media and government when they say fraud didn’t occur?
And he’ll have half a point.
Say this for Mr. Trump: How little disturbance in the social fabric he had to cause to expose the fraudulence of his enemies.
and his speechwriters decried a Trump “threat to democracy” even as his donors spent millions promoting the most outré Republicans during the GOP primaries. Any GOP aspirant who stood against the election big lie faced not only Mr. Trump but his secret deep-pocketed Democratic partners.
Russia expert and Trump impeachment witness Fiona Hill sees a “straight line” between Mr. Trump’s 2019 Zelensky phone call and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Maybe so, but recall exactly what happened. The U.S. establishment tried to impeach a president for being, it said, flippant and cynical about Ukraine’s security interests. Then this same establishment that sought to expel Mr. Trump for being insufficiently devoted to Ukraine took power—and that’s when Mr. Putin invaded.
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