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It's not my party, but are you seriously arguing that Trump supporters aren't pretty aggressive about keeping the base in line? How many examples of that would you need to concede there is a point?
The big difference I see is that Hillary threw in the towel, one day later, and Obama's GSA signed the docs straight away for transition, and things proceeded.
Contrast that with the scorched earth strategy of frivolous lawsuits that are dispatched in court (but not before the plaintiffs stipulate to the judge that they are not alleging actual voter fraud), drilling down in the key states to find any point at which a routine certification can become a contested one, in order to delay the process, in order to blow the deadlines in the hope of getting the thing decided in the House at one vote/state. How does a victory like that not come at a huge cost to the process itself?
Lots of analogies possible, but you don't like long posts so I'll try to be succinct.
In a championship game, the weaker team could start its scrubs, and send them out at the start to knock the stronger team's stars out of the game with a series of illegal hits. Sure, multiple 15-yard penalties, possibly some ejections, possibly some retribution, but hey if it narrows the odds, it's worth a try. Would that be respecting the game? No.
When I was in high school, for sports, if there was such a thing as a code of conduct, I never saw it. At my school, if you wanted to smoke, there was a designated area (I didn't). Don't drink at school but when I turned 18 in track season, could I go out on a weeknight and have a beer without running afoul of the code of conduct? Absolutely! Flip forward a few decades to my kids. Now the code of conduct is as thick as a grown man's thumb. How did that happen? Litigation, and an accumulation of additions resulting from it. In some corners of the world, including Trump's, there is this idea that if something is not expressly and explicitly against the rules, then it is allowed. Most people know that isn't how things work, that there has to be unwritten rules with a spirit to them that has to be respected. But when the star quarterback does something stupid that ought to get him suspended, and the parents fight it, the result is another 2 pages in the handbook. Over time things build up. Trump is by his own admission a terrible loser and highly litigious, so he is going to put everyone through this process, and many of his supporters are right there with him because so many people no longer have a sense of pride in their Democratic system of government by which we select our leaders, with the losing side living to fight another day. Post is longer than I thought oh well.
The big difference I see is that Hillary threw in the towel, one day later, and Obama's GSA signed the docs straight away for transition, and things proceeded.
Contrast that with the scorched earth strategy of frivolous lawsuits that are dispatched in court (but not before the plaintiffs stipulate to the judge that they are not alleging actual voter fraud), drilling down in the key states to find any point at which a routine certification can become a contested one, in order to delay the process, in order to blow the deadlines in the hope of getting the thing decided in the House at one vote/state. How does a victory like that not come at a huge cost to the process itself?
Lots of analogies possible, but you don't like long posts so I'll try to be succinct.
In a championship game, the weaker team could start its scrubs, and send them out at the start to knock the stronger team's stars out of the game with a series of illegal hits. Sure, multiple 15-yard penalties, possibly some ejections, possibly some retribution, but hey if it narrows the odds, it's worth a try. Would that be respecting the game? No.
When I was in high school, for sports, if there was such a thing as a code of conduct, I never saw it. At my school, if you wanted to smoke, there was a designated area (I didn't). Don't drink at school but when I turned 18 in track season, could I go out on a weeknight and have a beer without running afoul of the code of conduct? Absolutely! Flip forward a few decades to my kids. Now the code of conduct is as thick as a grown man's thumb. How did that happen? Litigation, and an accumulation of additions resulting from it. In some corners of the world, including Trump's, there is this idea that if something is not expressly and explicitly against the rules, then it is allowed. Most people know that isn't how things work, that there has to be unwritten rules with a spirit to them that has to be respected. But when the star quarterback does something stupid that ought to get him suspended, and the parents fight it, the result is another 2 pages in the handbook. Over time things build up. Trump is by his own admission a terrible loser and highly litigious, so he is going to put everyone through this process, and many of his supporters are right there with him because so many people no longer have a sense of pride in their Democratic system of government by which we select our leaders, with the losing side living to fight another day. Post is longer than I thought oh well.
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