My question on the on-going and, from a legal perspective, increasingly silly and insubstantial arguments being made by the Trump campaign and its supporters, is this: Do Donald Trump supporters really think he won the election?
As for President Trump himself, I don’t know what he believes. What I am interested in is whether his supporters think he was cheated. There are polls that seem to indicate a large number of people who supported President Trump think he really won the election, but I don’t know how the polls were conducted or how the questions were worded – or whether the news media is interpreting or reporting the results of these polls correctly.
Which is unfortunate because President Trump did lose, and it is time for people to accept that. Instead, too many Republicans are not accepting that, at least publicly. They seem to be scared of President Trump and his supporters and worried that, if they admit to what actually happened, they will be hounded out of office at the next election.
But that is not acceptable anymore. It is time to face what happened. The Democrats did not do a good job of that in 2016. Even though Hillary Clinton conceded the day after the election, too many Democrats, for too long of a time, said President Trump’s election was illegitimate. But Republicans are taking it even further, much further. It has to stop. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. President Trump lost. It is time to admit it. If he won’t, Republicans still have to. If that upsets some supporters of President Trump, so be it. Sometimes you have to do what’s right. Let’s start doing it.
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