The Spectacle of Trump's Unsuccess... Is almost as good as his actual failure
What began with a puckered asshole descending a gilt escalator in New York ended with his lawyer ranting next door to a 10th-rate merchant of buttplugs in Philadelphia. As far as American about-faces go, it’s about as good as we could expect and arguably better than we deserve. It’s also why fears of a Trumpist seizure of power seem unfounded. The pantomimic attempts at one are all so pathetic and ridiculous that even the incumbent’s most fanatical base seems too demoralized and spent to take them either literally or seriously.
Satisfying expectation, Donald Trump has so far failed to concede an election he insists he won “by a lot” even though he lost it resoundingly. He says there is evidence of widespread ballot fraud when the federal election commissioner has stated there is not. Apparatchiks in the GOP have either kept quiet, as wary and spent parents witnessing their toddler cycle through a temper tantrum might, or they’ve taken to the airwaves to demand that Joe Biden’s clear and unambiguous victory be deferred until all the lawsuits the Trump campaign has filed are adjudicated. This, in spite of the fact that the 10 lawsuits already filed have been dismissed by judges and credible reporting suggests the money raised to handle any more is really going to pay off outstanding campaign debts.
The long con continues, even if its dupes can’t quite keep up their end of the bargain anymore. MAGA mobs mobilized to terrorize vote-counters in Maricopa County, Arizona, vanished within 24 hours, according to a BuzzFeed journalist. In a nation “bitterly divided,” it seems, the bitterest still have better things to do for the weekend. True, the rest of the very online base continues to fulminate – at Fox News, which called Arizona for Biden early, before the other networks did. Now, the diehards say, they will only watch OANN or Newsmax for their alternate facts, making Rupert Murdoch the unlikeliest enemy of the people of this new age of paranoia. And yet, according to the latest Reuters/IPSOS poll, a whopping 80 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, believe Biden won. The other 20 percent are on Parler.
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