The MAGA meltdown over Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden has ratcheted up into high gear with no end in sight.
Politics
Donald Trump lost the election more than a month ago. Every single one of his legal challenges in courts across the country were either laughed out or thrown out. All 50 states have certified their election results and declared Joe Biden the winner. The US Supreme Court rejected Trump’s bid to overturn the election. And today, the Electoral College will meet to officially declare Joe Biden as president-elect and the 2020 election process over and complete.
So, why is a MAGA meltdown sweeping the nation and overtaking the minds of those we once saw as intelligent and logical people?
We can thank Donald Trump himself for that!
Trump has refused to accept reality and failed to understand how democracy works or that throwing a tantrum doesn’t overturn an election. He has revved up his MAGA sycophants into the completely false and unproven conspiracy theory that the election was rigged, that the results are not final, and that he still has a shot at remaining in office. Now, this mob mentality is causing a MAGA meltdown that is growing dangerously out of control and will poison America in the months and years to come.
Let’s take a look at the madness within just the past 7 days.
Last week, the State of Texas claimed it didn’t like the way certain battleground states (i.e. the states Joe Biden won) conducted their elections and claimed it was harmed by those states’ results. It then petitioned the US Supreme Court to block those states from counting “unlawful and constitutionally tainted votes” in the Electoral College.
On Wednesday, 17 states that Trump won (Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia) signed on to formally back the last-ditch Texas lawsuit and demanded that the Supreme Court block the certification of Joe Biden as the winner.
On Thursday, 126 Republican lawmakers in Congress went on record in support of the Texas stunt to overturn the election result in favor of Donald Trump — without offering a single shred of evidence as to why a duly held election should be tossed out. Now, Democratic congressional leaders have called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to exclude those GOP lawmakers from being seated in the next Congress — a move which is within her legal right to do.
“The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions.” – Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House
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On Friday, after the US Supreme Court refused to even hear the Texas argument, Donald Trump was so bitter than the 3 justices he appointed to the high court did not “fix” the election in his favor, he refused to leave his bedroom inside The White House and greet the hundreds of guests who had gathered for a Christmas party. Later, he went on a Twitter tirade saying he will go argue the case to the Supreme Court himself — not realizing that if the court refused to hear from his lawyers, they will almost assuredly refuse to hear from him.
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The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
So, you’re the President of the United States, and you just went through an election where you got more votes than any sitting President in history, by far – and purportedly lost. You can’t get “standing” before the Supreme Court, so you “intervene” with wonderful states…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
….that, after careful study and consideration, think you got “screwed”, something which will hurt them also. Many others likewise join the suit but, within a flash, it is thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought. A Rigged Election, fight on!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
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Also on Friday, Texas GOP Chairman Alan West and conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh called for the ‘ReTrumplican’ states to secede from the United States and launch their own country. Their words were nothing short of sedition.
On Saturday, the Proud Boys and other pro-Trump demagogues took to the streets of Washington, DC to demand the election results be tossed out and Donald Trump retained in The White House. Sporadic fights broke out between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators, leaving 4 people with serious stab wounds and 23 arrests.
The entire MAGA meltdown could end if Donald Trump would simply put aside his ego, stop being a sore loser, and concede defeat. However, since he insists on being an autocrat in the vein of a Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-Un, he has successfully riled up his MAGA fanatics (who also don’t understand how democracy and elections work) into a belief that if they kick and scream loud enough, they’ll eventually get their way.
Except, they won’t.
The election is over and has been for more than a month. On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden will be sworn-in as the 46th President of the United States — and Donald Trump will need to leave The White House and return to private life.
Except, he won’t.
He’ll NEVER concede. He’ll NEVER let it go. His ego is too huge and his pride is too bruised to ever accept defeat.
And so, the MAGA meltdown continues…
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CNN) A constitutional ritual that is normally a little-noticed curiosity will Monday turn into a symbol of the US political system’s durability while under assault from a defeated President seeking to overturn a democratic election. Electors from 50 states and the District of Columbia will gather across the country to cast their ballots, which will confirm Joe Biden as the rightful 46th president and California Sen. Kamala Harris as vice president.A moment of historic resonance will activate safeguards stemming from the founders’ fears nearly 250 years ago of a monarchical leader wielding unaccountable power to counter President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly spurned the fundamental principles of American democracy.Earlier attempts by Trump to strong-arm local Republican lawmakers to produce delegations in swing states that would ignore the will of millions of voters and his election loss failed. So ballots cast Monday will confirm Biden will surpass the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. The ballots… Read more »