Here is a fun little mental exercise.
In 2020 Trump lost the popular vote by 7,058,909 votes. He lost the elector college by 74 votes and would need to change the result of at least 3 swing states to bring Biden below the 270 mark. In every state, the margin of victory was in the thousands, and every state that requested a recount conducted one. Some even conducted multiple. Recounts conducted by hand!
This is a pretty clean loss. The biggest complaint the GOP has is the vote by mail system which was in many cases adopted by Republican state legislatures. All of their so-called fraud cases had no merit and were laughed out of court. Again a pretty resounding, clear, clean, concise, no question about it, loss. And yet they act as if the election had been stolen from them. Even claiming it to be so. So imagine if they had lost under much darker and cloudier circumstances.
Imagine if you will a reality in which Trump lost to Biden by just one state. And in that state, the margin between the two candidates was well under 600 votes statewide. Meanwhile, imagine instead of losing the popular vote he had actually won the popular vote by I dunno, half a million votes!
imagine there were actual irregularities with the vote in that one state. Imagine there were tens of thousands of so-called “over-votes” in which voters voted for more than one Presidential candidate and were therefore set aside uncounted. Additionally, imagine there were thousands of so-called “undervotes” in which people supposedly didn’t vote for any Presidential candidate.
Now imagine that state’s laws gave Trump the right to ask for a hand recount of those ballots and dictates that any vote in which the “intent of the voter” could be determined has to be included in the state's vote totals.
Imagine that recount gets underway and it’s clear many people who voted twice had also used a pen to circle the candidate they intended to vote for. Trump's name in most cases! Additionally, imagine if a large amount of the “undervotes” were in fact votes containing a presidential choice, and that intent of the voter was pretty clear. Imagine the counting machines had simply misread the ballots due to improperly punched holes caused by jammed up and poorly maintained voting equipment. And imagine if a sizeable chunk of those ballots were cast for Donald Trump.
But uh oh! While the state is trying to count the ballots a group of antifa rioters dressed in Brooks Brothers clothing and pretending to be normal every day citizens stormed into the building election officials were counting ballots in and tried to violently stop them.
Then imagine as a result of the hand recount Joe Biden’s margin of victory had been unofficially widdled down to double digits when the Supreme Court of the United States stepped in and halted the recount only to narrowly decide in a 5-4 decision along partisan lines that the recount was unconstitutional and that the theory of law they were using to decide the case should not be applied to future cases of similar circumstance.
Imagine this Supreme Court decision resulted in the recounts progress being reversed and Joe Biden winning the state by the original 537 ballot margin he started with. Then just as a final insult imagine if Trump had to sit as the President of the Senate while the Electoral College votes were counted and Joe Biden’s victory was certified.
Imagine how these fascists would react if they had to endure the injustice we endured in 2000 when the United States Supreme Court stopped the hand counting of votes in Florida and effectively installed George W. Bush into the Whitehouse despite losing the popular vote and winning the electoral college by a minuscule margin of 271 to 266.
Imagine if they had to deal with the circumstances our party dealt with. Imagine if they had to swallow that and concede and move on knowing a cloud of illegitimacy hung in the air as a stain on our nation's history.
Remember the injustice we suffered in 2000 and keep it in mind on January 19th and 20th when racist American fascists plan to descend upon our nation's Capitol once again, this time openly carrying automatic weapons. It’s already in the works. It’s already being planned. Merchandise is already being sold.
How will the good people of this nation respond?