DON WITH THE WIND
Even in its death throes, Donald Trump’s presidency generates headlines you never expected to read. Three weeks after an election in which Democrat Joe Biden won the Electoral College 306-232 and the popular vote by more than six million, the Huff Post reported that “More GOP Senators Have Covid Than Have Acknowledged That Joe Biden Won.”
“Trump’s Final Plan: Push Lawmakers To Overturn Voters” headlined a story about the President’s last-resort gambit of leaning on Republican-controlled legislatures in the election-deciding swing states to disregard the results and award their states’ Electoral College votes to Trump.
Had that happened, it would have signalled the end of US democracy. It would have meant America had repudiated the principles on which the republic was founded and the system of government it has extolled and sought to export ever since.
The campaign to overturn the election seemed like a wildly theatrical performance to buy Trump
