Doubling, Tripling Down

ITS BEEN MORE THAN THREE YEARS since Donald Trump, early on election night, proclaimed his big lie. Even though it came from Trump,most people were udoubtedly surprised and shocked, though they needn't have been. Only a bit later did his sycophants decide to hop aboard that dishonest bandwagon. Their, for the most part, they remain today. Trump decided to double down, as we say, to commit himslef fully and irreversibly to his gamit, where he remains today. He often repeats his big election lie, in public that he was not beaten badly by Biden, that, as he said "Actually, we won the election". Between now and the next election, we can expect to hear the same tired, insane refrain repeatedly, early and often. And, we can expect nearly all of his obviously self deluded followers to fully support his outagioue claim. actually, everybody on Earth, except the seriously mentally ill, knows full well the Trump's lie is a lie. Trump knows it, and said so, repeatedly, in person, to confidants. Two weeks before the 2020 election, he told Ivanka, "No matter what happens in the election, we'll just say that we won. Fuck it." Ivanka testified this for congress and investigators. Case closed. The lie is blatant, and always has been. Trump and his cult had, and still have, many options in dealing with it. They could confess, and offer to repent and atone. Not likely. They could simply stop reapeating the lie, and claim, if asked, that they never raally meant it, that it was some sort of "joke". They could slowly but steadily back up, and, Trump leading the way, start to say things like: "Well, maybe the election wasn't totally corrupt, but election fraud is still a serious problem in our beloved America." (that too would be a lie, but for them, a retreat) .There are a million ways for them to extricate themselves from their factual trap, a million ways to slowly back up and stop the insanity. The individual people involved could all, as individuals deny ever having embraced the lie, and we the sane could either look the other way, or keep tellling the truth, while they deny ever having taken the lie seriously. Trump himself could claim that the Chinese made him do it. With Trump, anything is possible, and anything seems to work. But instead they choose and continue to choose the worst way, the way which will ultimately bring them down. They double down, and they keep repeating the lie with as much fervor as ever. Mentally ill and morally bankrupt that the big lie was from the very first, on election night, with each passing day, it become more so. Each day, the people who continue to spew and pretend to believe Trump's big lie, especially Trump, are, arguably, indisputably, more and more mentaally ill and immoral, both. More criminal. That as much as forty percent of the Aemrican people is in this frightening, dangerous, and pathetic state of mind is alarming enough, more than enough. Trump's criminal insanity would be insignificant, were he not potentially the next president of these United States. (Re)electing Trump in 2024 would be far worse than electing Hitler in 1933. Much worse. Far worse. It would probably be better, for the sake of the country, for we the sane to step back a bit, and let them work and squirm their way out of it and ti save face. But they only respond by boubling, tripling down. when the see s stepping back to give them room to escape, they see what they insanely think is weakness.Just another part of being criminally insane. So, at least for now and the foreseeable future, our only choice is to clearly respond to the big lie with facts, unrelenting opposition and determination, and, just for fun and variety, a healthy dose of scorn and ridicule. At the frist sign that they want a way out, then we'll make nice.