America's Biggest Loser

 

This morning, between reports that Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump congressional lapdog Matt Gaetz both have COVID-19, CNN reported that 2 heavily armed men from Chesapeake, Virginia were arrested Thursday outside the Philadelphia Convention Center, where ballots are being counted. They were "coming to deliver a truck full of fake ballots." Both of the right-wing terrorists are Trumpist Q-Anon Republicans.

Since then, CNN, AP and NBC have called the election for President-elect Biden. Even Murdoch-owned media outlets are getting their right-wing viewers and readers ready to understand that the party's over for this round of fascism, shifting their messaging in what looks like a coordinated effort to pop the bubble of unreality. Laura Ingraham urged him to accept defeat with "grace and composure." As if!

This morning, before Trump was declared the loser, the editors of the Wall Street Journal published The Presidential Endgame, urging "whoever wins needs the other to concede to be able to govern. The result Americans on both political sides should want is one that most people think was decided fairly."

They explained that "Trump has every right to demand recounts if state votes are close, and to go to the courts for relief if there is evidence of fraud... [T]he Trump campaign will have to prove [fraud] to prevail in court. It won’t be enough to charge that Philadelphia is historically corrupt, though it is, or that state election officials are partisan. The Georgia secretary of state is a Republican, by the way, contrary to Mr. Trump’s remarks Thursday night. The vote counting in Arizona and Georgia has seemed professional and transparent... Pat Toomey, the GOP Senator from the Keystone State, says he has seen no evidence of fraud in his state’s counting. We’ve also seen no concrete evidence... If Mr. Biden has 270 Electoral College votes at the end of the counting and litigation, President Trump will have a decision to make. We hope in that event he would concede gracefully. " And now the bullshit you can always expect from the Journal editorial page:

Trump can rightly say that he helped the GOP save its Senate majority, gain seats in the House, and save the country from a radical progressive agenda. The election results show he has also broadened the GOP appeal to minorities and across middle-class America. His policies broadened prosperity to a forgotten group of Americans, and his willingness to buck conventional wisdom led to a diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East. His judicial appointments have reshaped the federal courts and will echo through the law for years.

This is a considerable achievement, and it may look even better once Mr. Biden attempts to govern with an angry, impatient left. But Mr. Trump’s legacy will be diminished greatly if his final act is a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat. Republican officials will turn away, and eventually so will the American public that wants to see the election resolved.

Mr. Trump hates to lose, and no doubt he will fight to the end. But if defeat comes, he will serve himself and his country best by honoring America’s democratic traditions and leaving office with dignity.

Dignity? Donald Trump? Where have they been for the last 40 years? Right after Biden became President-elect Trump said his campaign would begin challenging U.S. election results in court next week, saying "this election is far from over... We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed."