Andy McCarthy has a column complaining about Trump’s election fraud charges and meanders along a long path with seeming contradictions like Trump is dangerous but at the same time is a paper tiger because he didn’t really do any of the things he threatened to do during his presidency.
He also makes the point that Trump’s mouth is the reason Biden got twelve million more votes than Obama. Surprising to me, because Trump's actions in office have been positive and there’s a simple way (if requiring discipline) for Americans to avoid his mouth: don’t watch cable TV news and don’t follow him on social media.
Trump’s assertion of fraud in the election results is pure Trump in that it places a mirror before his opponent's faces. In this case, a pattern set by Democrats from Al Gore to Stacey Abrams. Trump's whole modus operandi has been “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”.
He differentiates himself most by using the power of the corporate media and turning it against them like some sort of jujitsu. Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barak Obama didn’t need to use jujitsu since the media loved their charismatic selves. And Republicans like the Bushes tried to placate the tiger by smiling a lot and trying to appear unthreatening. But Trump allowed everyone to so overplay their hand as to make him a sympathetic figure. Amazingly.
Contesting close elections is the new normal so people best get in tune with reality. Just as Scalia would never get a Democrat vote in his confirmation hearing today, close elections going forward are going to be examined by a proctologist.
Times change, which is why our crap voting system needs to become more transparent and trustworthy. Be nice if National Review focused on that instead of titling at the windmills of poor politician character (pardon the redundancy).
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