the walls closing in, or something
“When the elections become about the elections themselves” is the phrase Bill Maher throws out here, in the “slow moving coup” across multiple elections, on to the problem of the day — next time, in 2024, there’s not going to be that Brad Raffensperger guy — it will be those “Stop the Steal” people —
— I suppose Donald Trump has his sights on a more immediate coup, apparently taken to an August reinstatement. Times are bizarre enough — the Arizona “recount”, finding new grounds to find suspicious ballots — looks liable to come to its preordained outcome of ” Trump won, bamboo ballots from China corrupted the results” — and I see comments on the bottom half of the Internet about how nervous the liberal elites are getting on the Asizona audit and its shovelling of these bamboo ballots from China —
And the 2024 Republican nomination is Trump’s for the taking. Or, supposedly, he is about to face prosecution and prison. A conspiracist’s viewpoint — or possible ameteur Trump psycho-analysis — may be that Trump wants back in in August to deal away that problem.