or many of his supporters, an election loss for Donald Trump is an epistemological impossibility. For them, Trump has always already won.
He won, they say, in 2016, and not just the Electoral College vote but the popular vote as well — if you subtract the 3 million fraudulent votes cast by illegals bused across the southern border to cast ballots for Hillary Clinton. He won the 2020 election — if you acknowledge that millions more illegals crossed the border to vote again, that Sharpie pens were intentionally given to Republican voters so that the ink would bleed through and discredit their ballots, that Dominion voting machines had a China-made chip in them that automatically changed Trump votes to Biden votes, and that in Georgia those videos actually showed suitcases full of illicit ballots being taken out and counted in the middle of the night. And he will win again this time, even if Democrats manage to somehow cover up their shenanigans once again.
One likely scenario we are facing is that, if Trump is leading in the decisive battleground states on election night, he will declare victory and his campaign officials and legal team will flood major media outlets to amplify that emphatic message. The likely delay in final vote counts in the days that follow will be depicted as election malfeasance, and there will be staged events in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and elsewhere. These won’t be like Rudy Giuliani’s poorly organized Four Seasons stunt in 2020. It is probably safe to assume that they will have been organized well in advance by a team of competent professionals — a sort of Project Election 2025.
Sowing distrust right away opens the door to large angry rallies at election boards in decisive counties by tens of thousands of Trump supporters. Imagine a much larger but decentralized Jan. 6, 2021, made up of militia members, enraged voters and individual saboteurs.
Given that Trump already tried — and failed — to challenge the election results four years ago; given that this attempt was resisted by his own attorney general, GOP leaders in state legislatures and finally his own vice president, Mike Pence; given that it prompted a violent melee by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, resulting in over a thousand convictions; and finally given that a growing number of the most prominent officials of his administration have publicly accused him of being a literal fascist interested in nothing but power — given all of this, we have to ask: How is it possible that we find ourselves here again?
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