There is a sense of doom on Twitter about how the GOP is calling into question the results of last week's election. While a few people like Romney and Collins have congratulated Biden on his victory, we are getting some blazing hot takes from the likes of Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell about "count all the legal votes" and the "President should get his day in court."
This has caused concern, because it is a norm to accept the results of an election, yet we know Trump will never accept his humiliating, crushing defeat (5,000,000 votes and rising). The presumption is that some of his GOP enablers are treating him the way you would a spoiled toddler: assuaging him with soothing words until he comes to accept that he cannot, in fact, get a real helicopter for Christmas. I think that's likely. The real question will come when the votes are certified and the court cases thrown out on their ear, because they are laughable bullshit. Which they are. The fact that US Senators are called into question the legitimacy of an American election that was not particularly close in the end is disturbing.
The possibility of real damage to our shared sense of democratic institutions is real.
However, while there are certain problems with Trump's tantrum, namely the inability for Biden to manage his transition, it ultimately means nothing. At this point.
David Frum - Dubya Bush's former speechwriter - predicted that when democracy rejects conservatism, conservatism will reject democracy. I don't know if we are entirely there yet, but we can see it from here without binoculars.
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