Suffering What Trump Hath Wrought

 THE MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE;  a young lady with a four year old child, was all set to watch "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" with her preschooler last December, when she heard a ruckus in her front yard. Peeking between blinds, she saw what she dreaded most: a gang of MAGA hatted screeching Trump people, with bullhorns, cell phones, and hand painted signs, chanting "stop the steal", and promising that hell no, they weren't going anywhere for awhile. To deserve this, she had a couple of days earlier formally certified the Michigan election results, in which Democrat Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump narrowly to win Michigan's fourteen electoral votes. She is far from alone. All across the land of liberty, election workers are still being death threatened and harassed, eight months after the election, for having the audacity to count the votes and declare the winner the winner. When the winner is Joe Biden, the Trump people are absolutely certain of one thing; Biden won only because of massive election fraud. Two days ago a man driving a pick up truck parked in front of the Library of Congress, just down the street from the nation's capitol building, and announced that he had a bomb, and was not afraid to use it. Another Trumper, still mad as hell, still buying into the big Trump lie. Its a new normal, as we say nowadays, for American democracy; a normal in which decency is replaced by lies and terror, in which instead of shaking hands and offering sincere congratulations after an election, we hurl unfounded, outlandish accusations of voter fraud, and proceed to go to war, in courtrooms, on the streets, in the media. And no matter how convincingly, how logically and persuasively ad definitively the accusations of mass voter fraud are dispelled, no matter how indisputable the facts supporting the election results as reported, it is never good enough. The Trump MAGA mob merely moves the goal post further back, raises the target higher, and issues new, ever wilder accusations and claims of election theft form Trump. The poll workers were Democrat plants.  Disappearing ink. Ballot boxes were switched in the wee hours of the night, nationwide. the Dominion voting machine company, in concert with Venezuelan socialists and American democrats, were rigged. The sore loser Trump crowd never runs out of contrived, dishonest reasons, and never regains any semblance of decency, morality and honor. Two thirds of the Republican party, two thirds of American conservatives, all reason tossed to the wind, complying with the raving nonsense of s single, disturbed individual, the former president of the United States. Donald Trump predicted the election would be stolen from him before election day. On election night , before the votes were done being counted, as Joe Biden appeared to be inching towards victory in key states, Trump did it again; he claimed that, "actually, we won the election". Then, over the next days, weeks, and months, he kept repeating the same big lie, like a Joseph Goebbels on steroids. The lie was and remains as obvious as the side of a barn, painted bright red, staring you in the face. And still, the traitors to democracy and to America, millions of the, simply will....not....let....it...go. Their moral bankruptcy is beyond disappointing. It is unbelievable.