{"id":845,"date":"2020-12-07T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2020-12-07T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T21:03:51","slug":"can-he-get-any-more-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/07\/can-he-get-any-more-petty\/","title":{"rendered":"Can he get any more petty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this is true, it’s really bad. <\/p>\n

Trump plans to outshine Biden on Inauguration Day with opposing rally: report<\/a> <\/p>\n

I probably have more sympathy than many of you with the “Democrats cheated” story line. My reasons. (1) People cheat, and they cheat even more when they believe they can get away with it. (2) Democrats disproportionately embrace an “ends justify the means” attitude. (3) The surge in mail-in voting made the possibility of widespread cheating more tempting, and more probable. (4) Many of the places where cheating is alleged are not known as beacons of fairness and good government, to put it mildly. <\/p>\n

However …. Nothing substantial is sticking. IOW, while it’s a dead certainty there was cheating, it’s also fairly certain it wasn’t enough to change the results. At least from what we’ve seen so far. <\/p>\n

Accusation after accusation has been shot down, and not only by Obama appointees. Even the suitcase thing,<\/a> which seemed so damaging at first, might be no big deal. (Although Mollie Hemingway says it has not been debunked<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

I suppose it’s possible there’s this great, underground, fabulously successful conspiracy out there that stole the election. After all, the Russia thing almost worked. But so far, we haven’t been given convincing evidence. <\/p>\n

This leaves two plausible explanations for Trump’s strategy. <\/p>\n

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  1. He truly believes the election was stolen, and he feels it’s his duty to expose it.\n
  2. He’s cynically using the issue for future political advantage. <\/ol>\n

    Even if he believes #1, it doesn’t excuse skipping Biden’s inauguration. That’s petty and unbefitting a man, let alone a president. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If this is true, it’s really bad. Trump plans to outshine Biden on Inauguration Day with opposing rally: report I probably have more sympathy than many of you with the “Democrats cheated” story line. My reasons. (1) People cheat, and they cheat even more when they believe they can get away with it. (2) Democrats … Continue reading “Can he get any more petty?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}