Finding Fraud Part II

MANY PEOPLE made fun of Herschel Walker, and I was tempted to, but give crediet where due; he lost graciously, in his post election defeat acceptance concession speech. Among Republicans, even nominal Republicans like Herschel, that, gracious, dignified losing, is a far too rare form of behavior. A much more typical Republican is Kari Lake, a true MAGA Trumper & election denier, defeated for governor of Arizona. True to the new Trumpian tradition, she has now filed a law suit, presumably in federal court in front of some handpicked conservative judge, to have the election results, which she claims are fraudulant, overturned, and a new gubernatorial election held. Fat chance of that, presumably. Won't she and her legal team have to prove conclusively that there was indeed massive fraud in the election, and to show exactly how it worked, and who done it? So far, no Republican election loser has ever been seen doing this, anywhere. The lawsuit is no surprise; she's been saying since the electiion that it was stolen from her, and, like Trump, said before the electon that if she lost, it could onlly be explained by voter fraud. Like Trump, primng the pump, in advance. Like Trump, another right wing nut case spouting lies and anger. The importance of this is that it seems to verify the worst fears of those who love Democracy: that Trump's big election lie indeed created a whole new culture of election denial and mistrust of democracy in America, a new poison of the mind which will infect the culture for nobody knows how long or how severly. Trumpism is still here, and maybe, horror of horrors, here to stay for awhile. Those of us who still believe that the best and only way to deal with losing an election is to graciously congratulate the winner and offer support have our work cut out for us, defending and upholding civilization and decency in the face of this horrible avalanche of moral depravity known as "contemporary American conservatism-Trumpism". Kari Lake, like Donald Trump, is more a symptom of the illness rather than a cause of it. She belongs to a political movement, conservatism, and a political party, the REpublicans, which elected Donald Trump to the American presidency becaue of their anger, anger over a country they see as changing in ways they find unacceptable, with the emergence of the LGBTQ community, and brown and black skinned people as major political forces, and the decline of the popularity of religion. The essential fact is that this anger is still very much with us, and is bound to continue rearing its ugly head in future political campaigns and elections.