When Power Trumps Principles: Not Accepting An Election's Outcome
Trump's Klown Kar Koup Attempt As I sit writing this, overlooking the whitecaps on the storm-lashed Bali Sea, Donald Trump has yet to accept the undeniable fact that he lost the 2020 US presidential election. In doing so, he suffered the ignominy of being one of only 4 incumbent presidents to have lost their bid for re-election in the past century, and to have lost by a wider margin than any incumbent since the hapless Herbert Hoover in 1932, during the depths of the Great Depression. Joe Biden won 306 electoral college votes to 232 for Trump, coincidentally the same margin (but in the opposite direction) as in 2016, a result that Trump declared numerous times was "a landslide". The electoral college is a bizarre, outdated and anti-democratic system that is long past its use-by date, but it's the way elections work in the US. In the more easily understood popular vote, Biden won by more than 7 million votes (81.3 million to 74.2 million)....