Republican Congressional Leaders Still Have Not Congratulated Joe Biden on Election Win

 

This is the kind of thing that makes me almost suspicious that the “powers that be” are actively considering a real, an actual coup d'état, and almost testing it out, to see how the American public would react, if they would take it.              

Maybe that sounds paranoid. But here’s the thing: we just endured four long years with Donald Trump dominating our politics. Whatever else, whatever other problems that Trump brought to American politics – and there were no shortage of those – the most alarming to me by far was his obvious flirtation with staying in power indefinitely. In typical Trump style, he claimed that he was just “joking” when he spoke about how he thought the United States should consider having a “President for life.” He also claimed that his supporters might demand that he serve a third term, and this was well before he had ever run for a second term! Frankly, it does not matter what his supporters might or might not want. There are term limits, those laws are in the books, and they are in the best interests of preserving democracy. America does not have a king, does not have an emperor, or a dictator, who stays in power for as long as he likes. This country has a president, who is elected into office at the pleasure of the voters. In other words, you still need to win an election for the right – indeed, for the privilege – to represent the American people as the elected leader of the land.  Whether he was just “joking” or not, it clearly was on his mind, this idea of staying in the White House well past not just a first four year term, but past the two term limit, as well. He simply assumed that he would win another term, and in fact in his own words, he always assumed that he would win another term easily, that there was no way that the Democrats would defeat him.              

Which of course brings me to the next point: that false sense of entitlement that Trump was absolutely famous for. He automatically assumed that he knew better than literally everybody else, about pretty much everything. Remember the most infamous example of this, when he claimed he knew more about ISIS than his own generals? That is a perfect illustration of this, because he simply assumes that everyone else is an idiot, and that he is truly a genius by comparison. And in that same spirit, he just assumed that, in a fair election, he would beat anyone and everyone else. That worked in 2016, but remember that he also falsely claimed to have enjoyed enormous success the first time that he ran for the White House. Yet, he was conveniently trying to make everyone forget that, in fact, he also ran in the previous presidential election, and that his campaign flopped so badly, that it did not even make it into calendar years 2012. He lost this past election, and remember, he also lost the popular vote in 2016 by nearly three million votes.              

Faced with these sobering facts, Trump tries to then make the claim that those were because of “illegal votes” and alleging widespread voter fraud. Yet, he offers no serious evidence to back up these claims. So far, days after the election results projected Joe Biden as the winner, the Trump campaign offered very little evidence whatsoever, and nothing at all that backs any of his claims that he only lost because of widespread voter fraud This is a nation of laws, and if you are going to make claims like that, then you need to offer proof that can and will stand up in a court of law. This he has not done, and seems very unlikely to do.              

Why?              

Because these claims are from a delusional man with a false sense of entitlement. In his own head, he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. He has absolutely no sense of modesty, and claimed before ever being elected that he would be the greatest job creating president in American history. Once in office, he quickly proclaimed himself to be the greatest, most accomplished president in history, and has maintained that claim since, but again, with little to no evidence to back up such a lofty claim. In his own mind, he could never lose an election, even though, again, he lost when he ran for the White House in 2012, lost the popular vote in 2016, and lost both officially and in terms of the popular vote here again in 2020.              

Enough with Trump delusions!

And to secure the end of Trump delusions impacting us nationally - even internationally - then we have to make sure that his ennablers, including those in government, do not, and cannot, keep going on and on stoking his ego and empowering his delusions of grandeur. He lost the election, and the popular vote is somewhere between four and even nearing five million as of the last count in favor of Biden. Sure, in 2000, Bush won officially after several recounts, but Florida was incredibly close, and it also proved to be the key state. At last count, Trump lost Michigan by well over one hundred thousand votes, Pennsylvania by tens of thousands of votes, Wisconsin by tens of thousands of votes, Nevada by over ten thousand votes, and was losing in both Arizona and Georgia by over ten thousand votes, even though neither of those two states had officially yet been called. Trump needs more than one of those to flip back to him, and he just does not have the math to do it, most likely. So he has to rely on claims of massive voter fraud, of "illegal votes" and the like. Pure idiocy.

Now, some Congressional leaders, particularly Mitch McConnell and Lyndsey Graham are claiming that he has a case? When people argue that Republicans under Trump have grown not just a bit undemocratic, but blatantly anti-democratic, this is the kind of absurdity that they are talking about.

Trump lost this election, pretty much in every way. He lost the popular vote resoundingly. He lost many of the key states in such a way that there is no real way to contest it. He lost the battle of ideas, he lost because people did not feel that they could trust him as an elected leader anymore. He lost. And it is time to stop beating around the bush (no pun intended) and to recognize, even grudgingly, that he lost. And if he will not do it, then Congressional leaders must do it, or somehow, be made to pay a very steep price. 

As I said before, his fans and unconditional supporters desperately need to see their man lose. They evidently truly do need to see that he has his limitations, and cannot make obviously false things true simply because he claims that they are true. He did not win this election, and he cannot make it so simply by claiming that Biden and the Democrats stole the election because of "illegal votes." Trump lost, and was greatly diminished, and now, his supporters, including those in Congress, need to accept that. They spent four years trying to tell Trump detractors that Hillary lost the 2016 election, so get over it.

Now it is time to follow their own sage advice. Trump lost the election. Get over it.