TFG maintains that not only didn't he lose in 2020

[thucythucy]

but that there were supposedly millions of fraudulent votes cast for Secretary Clinton in 2016, his take on how he lost the popular vote two national elections in a row.

Which begs the question: since he was in charge of the Executive branch during the intervening four years, why didn't he take any steps to prevent "fraud" in 2020?

His own narrative casts him, again, as an incompetent and malevolent buffoon. Meaning his response to the supposed (and entirely fictitious) election fraud was as clueless as his response to Covid 19.

Then again, I'm on a fool's errand, trying to parse logic and consistency out of anything MAGA.

[brooklynite]

1. But he did....

Don't you remember the Election Commission he set up after he took office?

[thucythucy]

4. As I recall the commission found no evidence of widespread fraud.

So either a) there was no fraud and he's been lying all along or b) his incompetence in this and every other field knows no bounds.

But what am I saying? It is an either/or kind of thing. It's both.

[brooklynite]

7. No, that was the deep state...try to keep up.

[ananda]

2. Well, he did win some votes.

He can't understand that somebody else got more.

[Taraman]

3. And I still don't understand how he won any

[thucythucy]

5. Since projection is his stock in trade

I would imagine that there are some issues around the honesty of his own vote count.

Unfortunately, to dig into this at present would work to reinforce the whole "we can't trust the vote" BS that the GQP has been pushing. But someday I'd love to see an in-depth review of how the vote was tabulated in Kentucky, to cite just one example.

[CrispyQ]

12. Interesting that the right cast doubt on Dominion voting systems, but not ES&S. -nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. He won a significant number of votes because he is the guy millions of voters....

Have been waiting for all their lives.

He says the quiet things out loud, and with gusto.

They have been waiting for a Donald Trumpy forever, it’s that simple.

He is using an ancient playbook that for the first time in a very long time, longer than the lifetimes of most of his voters, is being used by an American with designs for high office.

He says the things those people have been desperate to hear. He hates the same people they do, he is crass, clueless, humorless, a clumsy, socially inept dullard, dim witted, pedestrian, parochial, clearly racist, small minded, un-lettered, and unapologetically so, and they LOVE him for it.

THEY. LOVE. HIM. FOR. IT.

And if he runs again, he could pull it off, don’t think otherwise for one second.

[Moostache]

8. The odds and actuarial tables are against him living long enough..

He is clearly slipping mentally from an already low branch.

Universal karma, I renew my pledge to strike him down - explode his heart and balance the universe once more...

[3catwoman3]

10. That is quite a string of adjectives.

I often referred to him as C to the fifth power - common, crude, coarse, crass, and contemptible. I’m going to add clueless - thank you.

I am completely unable to relate to people who find those attributes and behaviors appealing or admirable.

[thucythucy]

13. Absolutely.

The sad part, and this is truly frightening, is that even without any fraud he is clearly a hero to tens of millions of Americans.

And I certainly remain concerned at his continued popularity. That, combined with GOP voter suppression and other tricks, means we ignore his running again at great risk.

[Nexus2]

9. And a little more in his second attempt, IIRC. including some maginal increase from minorities.

[KS Toronado]

11. The former idiot loves talking about how elections were stolen from him.

But never tells his followers how it was done or any concrete proof of fraud, just a deep state done it.
And the really sad part is that some people (R's) believe every word he says.