A Great Election, Against All Odds

(NYT Editorial Board)

I agree with that too! Said, or wrote, so. Commended Trump supporters, in fact.

The 2020 election was not simply free of fraud, or whatever...the president is braying about at this hour. It was...a resounding success. In the face of a raging pandemic and the highest turnout in more than a century, Americans enjoyed one of the most secure, most accurate and most well-run elections ever.

Yep, every word. But this thing is not over. As Chris Krebs said the purpose of an election is to get the loser to acknowledge (s)he lost. That has not happened yet and there is no indication it ever will happen. But I also think the brilliant Indi Samarajiva is, more likely than not, correct that we are being "coup'd" and don't know it yet. It sure looks like we are. Mr. Samarajiva believes to a moral certainty that we are and that we should be scared, very scared. I am scared. 

So before we get callouses patting ourselves on the back, let's consider that we might be too close to the trees to see the forest; that we've got 59 days to go until Inauguration Day, that a lot of scary stuff can happen in those 59 days, but probably will not, that we don't have the big picture, that the big picture will be what happens after Jan. 20. 

Mr. Samarajiva doesn't like the term "constitutional crisis," it's a coup d'etat! Well, no it's not, not yet, and it will not be a military coup. I don't think there will be an armed attempt, much less a successful one, by any body of civilians either. Granting Mr. Samarajiva's  objection to "crisis" and giving him his mot juste I could call what we're having, if we're having it, and I think we are, a "constitutional coup." You have to put constitution in there it seems to me, that's our traveling document, our Law. The constitutional coup-sters have taken no extra-constitutional, illegal actions. It's an insult to coup-sters everywhere to call filing lawsuits and protesting and "braying" a coup d'etat. They have been verbally violent in assailing the election as "fraudulent," etc. etc. and those verbal assaults have have exposed the crumbly wormwood in the Constitution, there is no doubt of that, but they have not taken arms to destroy it. 

The greater concern, to summarize the previous post on this subject is when President Biden takes office. If the Republicans stonewall every damn thing that he attempts, if Trump is still out there "braying"--and I defy the New York Times or anybody form getting all rosy-fingered dawn about those--then the Republicans will be, by constitutional means, prohibiting the election winner from governing, thereby not conceding that they are the election losers, the purpose of an election, and then the election will not have been "great."