The end is near

Our ersatz president would like us to believe that he isn't fighting for himself but for the 74 million persons who voted for him.  A record number, he points out, for a sitting president.  No surprise he was appalled that the Supreme Court rejected the suit that was filed by Texas AG Paxton to nullify the results in four states that Trump had won in 2016 but lost in 2020. Only conservative old farts Alito and Thomas were willing to hear the absurd suit, which claimed these unbelievable results in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia represented an existential threat to the security of the Lone Star State.  "No Wisdom, No Courage," Trump shouted on Twitter!

Trumplicans still aren't done.  Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks threatens to challenge the Electoral College results in January, now that there is nothing to impede the college from convening on Monday and formally certifying the election for President-Elect Biden.  Mo will no doubt have the support of other Republican representatives who swear their loyalty to Trump.  Not since antebellum days have we seen such a brazen defiance to an incoming president.  Some states are even threatening to secede if Biden is inaugurated on January 20.  

All this bluster has given false hope to Trumpists across the land who refuse to concede this election to the Democrats.  The vast majority of Republicans believe that the election was fixed and that Biden is a fraudulent president-elect.  Ted Cruz has threatened a "blockade" of the Biden administration, not allowing a single one of the presumptive president's nominations for cabinet positions to be approved. He and other conservative legislators are very anxious to gain the approval of the vast number of dissatisfied conservatives who firmly believe their votes were discredited in this election.

It's not like the Republicans haven't lost before.  Clinton ended the Reagan-Bush dynasty in 1992.  Obama crushed both McCain and Romney.  While conservatives did fear the end of the world as they knew it, they didn't go to such extremes to nullify the results.  So why are Republicans so much more aggrieved to have lost this time around?  It seems it is largely due to one man's exceedingly bloated ego, which we have watched slowly leak out over the past five weeks as he tries to hold onto the reins of power that he fully believes are rightfully his.  

You would expect to see this kind of truculence in Belarus or Venezuela but not in the United States.  We are the land of the free and the home of the brave.  Even when faced with a president not to our liking, we go on about our lives and impatiently wait four years to remove him from office through the democratic act of voting.  The one and only time states rose up against an incoming president ended very badly.  I don't think anyone really wants to repeat the Civil War, but that appears to be where we are headed if our Republican lawmakers don't settle down and accept the reality of the general election.

It would be more a virtual civil war fought on social media with a lot of blocking, defriending and nasty jibes thrown at each other.  We don't really have the stomach for actual battle.  However, that appeared to be the case back in 1861 with a lot of posturing along the borders before the war finally broke out in April when the federal garrison refused to abandon Fort Sumter.  This time we might see the situation in reverse with Trump refusing to leave the White House, calling in his "Proud Boys" to defend him.  We all hope it doesn't go that far, but we are dealing with a severely emotionally retarded man.

There is this belief that truth and justice will prevail, Trump will accept his loss no matter how begrudgingly, and we will move on with this great experiment we call the United States of America.  We assume his showman instinct will know when to draw the curtain on his reality show. The problem is that Trump isn't acting.  He genuinely believes he was robbed and will resort to whatever pathetic means he has at his disposal to stave off the inevitable right up till noon on January 20 when he formally has to relinquish the White House to President-Elect Biden, and possibly beyond.

There is no wisdom nor courage in his actions.  He is a hopelessly insecure man who fears no longer being the center of the world's attention.  Never were his television ratings so high or has he enjoyed so many followers.  As a result, he desperately flails around hoping that we will continue to watch him even after he is forcibly removed from office.