"What is the downside for humoring him?"

[brooklynite]

Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) said that several of his Republican colleagues have told him in private: “Please convey my well wishes to the president-elect, but I can’t say that publicly yet.” The news is full of reports that Trump retainers and family members — even Jared Kushner and Melania Trump — are struggling to get him to accept the reality that he lost. And yet Republicans keep the charade going because their leader is too much of a “snowflake” to admit that he was just repudiated by more than 76 million Americans.

One senior Republican official told The Post: “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change.” It is hard to imagine a better encapsulation of how feckless and dangerous the Republican Party has become. What’s the downside? Only the undermining of our democracy.

Many countries have elections. But only in functioning democracies do losers recognize the result and transfer power to the winners. “Graceful concessions by losing candidates constitute a sort of glue that holds the polity together, providing a cohesion that is lacking in less-well-established democracies,” writes Shaun Bowler, a political scientist who is a co-author of “Losers’ Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/10/humoring-trump-gop-enabling-authoritarianism/

[frazzled]

1. The harm is having a constrained transition

No access to funds from the government for transition
No access to office space that is supposed to be given
Most important, no access that is needed to agencies, and especially to classified data

This truly hampers a successful transition

[bullimiami]

2. The downside is that its fucking stupid to have to humor a 74 year old psychopathic baby.

It eats at the fucking souls that we still have. Sorry about yours.


Im not worried about the transition.
Biden and his people could take off from a dead stop on Jan 20 and have a more effective and informed govt by Feb than Trump ever had.

[Skittles]

3. heaven forbid they put country above party

fucking COWARDS

[Orangepeel]

4. this is the downside

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214526606

Pennsylvania Republicans plan 'extraordinary measures' to delay election results

Republicans in the Pennsylvania state legislature on Tuesday said they would take “extraordinary measures” to find out whether the election in their state was fair, despite having no evidence of any wrongdoing. State Rep. Dawn Keefer, a Republican from York County, announced that Republicans in the state legislature would move to conduct an audit of the election, and that the state should not certify the election results, or select electors to the Electoral College, until it is completed.

I remember a lot of people (including me) who didn't take Trump seriously in 2016. There were too many republican challengers and he's a clown. One of them would take him out. But we know what happened. There is a risk in not taking him seriously because the whole fucking republican party ends up kowtowing to him.

[tanyev]

5. What's the upside?

Why can’t 250 elected Republicans tell an insane egomaniac to go pound sand?

[Arkansas Granny]

6. They are talking about the President, not a toddler. Unbelievable.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. The downside is that you shouldn't allow your two year old to

get away with such nonsense.

Unfortunately, a lot of parents think, Oh how bad can it be if I give in and buy him the candy/toy/whatever? You give in and the kid know he's got you. And refusing the next time will be exponentially harder.

[Blue Owl]

8. But sadly, Eric Trump ate that glue that held the polity together