Agreed. Like many, I'm disappointed with the way the presidential election is turning out. Is voter fraud going on? No doubt. It was inevitable with the mail-in ballots. You've got states like California where someone can walk in the door of the election office carrying a sack of filled out ballots, and they will be counted without any questions asked. But I also doubt that it will change the outcome of the election.
Once every state certifies its own election totals, that will be that. Trump can try to fight it, but as Gore learned back in 2000, the Supreme Court isn't going to touch this case. The whole point of the electoral system is to prevent voter fraud from spreading across the entire country. There will be some cheating, and it may sometimes swing an election (as it did with Kennedy and Nixon back in 1960), but overall the system works.
Here's the other thing: the Republicans actually did fine overall. It is almost certain they will retain control of the Senate. They actually gained 6 seats in the House. This in spite of the huge anti-Trump, anti-Republican drumbeat in the media. The voters may have rejected Trump, but they did not reject Republicans, in spite of hundreds of millions of $$ being spent on Democratic campaigns. Ultimately it came down to the fact that the Democrats had no message beyond not being Donald Trump. It worked for Biden, but not for the people trying to ride his coat tails.
Right now, Trump doesn't have many friends left. He did what he needed to do four years ago - he prevented Hillary Clinton from becoming president. He got elected the same way Biden probably will, by getting a lot of votes from people who hated his opponent. But ultimately Trump was his own worst enemy. I personally think that if he had stopped using Twitter two years ago, he would have won handily. Twitter helped get him elected, but in the end it was also his undoing. He gave the press, and his opponents, too much ammunition against him.
The Republicans now realize that their post-election position is far stronger than they expected. The Supreme Court is not going to be packed (and destroyed) by the Democrats. All of the insane Democratic legislation being pushed prior to the election will be dead in the water. To many conservatives, Trump is now more of a liability than asset. He's too much of a lightning rod for the opposition. It is far, far better now to let Biden take office so that the Democrats can destroy themselves, which they will inevitably do.
Let's face it - the Democrats, in their desire to beat Trump, will have a POTUS who is one of the most venal, self-serving, pro-establishment Democrats ever elected. He will waste no time cozying up to China and Russia. His friends and family will line their pockets right and left. (People will be astonished how quickly the "Russia is evil!" stories in the media vanish.) And being borderline senile, he will be unable to push back against the progressive Democrats who think that voters elected Biden because they want more riots, more burning cities, fewer police, higher energy prices, and more identity politics. They will push for the Green New Deal and the end of capitalism with a vengeance, cheered on by the media. And once President Harris takes over (I give it a year, tops), she will double down on the insanity.
Their efforts will go nowhere. It will explode in their faces. Moderate Democrats will be unable to stop the train wreck, because Pelosi is too brain dead herself to push back against the lunatic fringe and the media. If the Democrats walk the path that I expect them to, the Republicans will assume control of the House again in 2022, and the presidency in 2024.
Some people seem to think that the Democrats have the goal of turning the U.S. into a communist or socialist state. I disagree. What they really want is the model of the Mexican government with the pretense of democracy, where one ruling party gets 90% of the vote every election, where the odds are deliberately stacked against any opposition, where elections are managed (and manipulated) at the federal level, and where a tiny ruling elite (mis)manages the wealth of the country while most of the electorate grinds away in poverty in an economy without opportunities or advancement.
Make no mistake - the next few years will not be easy. The economy will suffer, and Biden (or Harris) will enact one crazy executive order after another. I wish I owned stock in a gun shop, because business will be booming over the next two months. The difference is that a conservative Supreme Court and a Republican Senate will curb the worst excesses.
So everyone, cheer up a bit. In the long run, we will make it through this mess.
What I hope eventually comes out of this is a constitutional amendment setting an upper limit on the number of Supreme Court justices. If the Democrats gain control of the Senate and the office of POTUS, they will not hesitate to stuff the court. They have been very clear about that. Then the Republicans will be forced to do the same, over and over, so that 30 years from now we'll have dozens of justices, with Supreme Court rulings swinging back and forth like a pendulum every four years. It will be a nightmare for this country. The timing isn't right yet, but it might be in two or four years. I hope some smart Republicans are planning for this contingency.
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