Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Do I count correctly? Is that 26 red, 3 split, and 21 blue? If so, would that mean Trump wins if the vote goes to the House?
Correct Bob, and that is also why the correct strategy for Trump throughout all this has been through the Republican controlled legislatures in the contested states rather than through the courts.
Almost as if he doesn’t mind the losing so much as the thought of being called a loser, huh?
Or he’s trying to persuade the population at large, rather than just the politicians.
Not sure it will work, but have noticed the media slowly backing off the “Biden is president” stuff.
He may not win, but he’s doing serious damage to their ability to fight, which means that if they pull something like threatening the children of the state legislators, it’ll get attention.
Almost as if he doesn’t mind the losing so much as the thought of being called a loser, huh?
Trump hates losing and I think he liked being President and is enraged, correctly, that the election was stolen from him. He is also a pragmatist as most successful business people have to be. If he determines that there is no possible way to a second term, he will make a “I’ll be back!” speech and spend the next four years roasting the new regime on the wildly successful Trump TV. If he is still alive and vigorous he will be the odds on favorite for the Republican nomination in 2024, unless he decides to go third party. Trump is one of the few candidates I could see winning a third party run, but I think it unlikely. I could see the Republicans nominating him anyway in that situation. For mostly good, and some ill, the Republican party is Trump’s party as long as he lives.
I admit it occurred to me after I hit post that the reason Trump doesn’t appear to have any election lawyers working for him is because he can’t get any to work for him.
Although, that strikes me as odd too, since, at least as the notional head of the Republican party, you’d think he’d be able to scrape up a couple.
So I don’t know. Maybe it’s more the Republican party’s voters are Trump’s as long as he lives, rather than the Republican party itself.
And that thought points once more towards the uniparty-deepstate complex. Both parties have contempt for, and condescend to, the voters they need to serve in order to get the power they crave. And that’s how you get the populism we saw with Ross Perot and the Reform Party, and now with Trump.
Wish I had your optimism, Foxfier. At this point they could probably publicly crucify some state legislators and only the “fringe” websites will report it while all the fact-checkers will declare it a crazy Qanon conspiracy.
And worse – the people that need to see it, won’t believe it because they can’t risk the realization that maybe their side isn’t perfect.