Trump Lost
That's right. I said it.
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Friends, I’ve got some bad news: Trump lost the 2020 election and the only way he can undo it is to invent time travel. He’s not going to be reinstated. Biden won, and you need to accept it.
This is not going to happen:
No, that’s not how it works. I don’t know if he actually believes this, but a lot of people do and he’s playing to them.
If you’re one of those people, and you’re annoyed or even enraged by the words you’re reading right now, I’ve got some more bad news: I don’t care.
People lose elections. It happens every single time. There’s a winner and a loser. It sucks to vote for somebody who loses, but that’s just how it goes. I’ve voted in exactly one election where my preferred candidate won, and that was in 2004. The last two elections, I wrote in a candidate as a protest vote. I didn’t get what I wanted. Them’s the breaks.
Trump lost. He did not win. For the first time in his life, he didn’t get what he wanted and he’s never had to develop the emotional apparatus to handle it. You don’t have to enable him, but if you insist, that’s your business. Just leave me out of it.
This is what you sound like now:
No thanks.
If that makes you hate me, I don’t want you to like me.
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Having worked in a GOP state legislature for three decades, I learned to work with Rule 1 of politics: Sometimes you lose. It's like the law of gravity, it can't be avoided or changed, no matter how much magical physics you gin up in the Star Wars/Star Trek/Marvel writers room.
When you lose, and you will, you suck it up, try to learn what went wrong, then come back and win the next time. In the meantime, you have the one luxury of the minority--the ability to attack constantly and propose wild red-meat programs you know will never get passed. It can be fun, having no responsibility.
I suspect many of the folks still clinging to "Trump won!" are new to politics or found the glorious hero they never had before, so they don't know or can't acknowledge Rule 1. The rest of those folks are politicians or grifters who do understand Rule 1 and are trying to profit off of those who don't.
It was a fun ride, that I thought would end. I was happy for Joe Biden because the I thought this would all be over. I blame those in the media (on both sides) who took, and are taking this way too far.