Let's start with something that has seemingly been forgotten about the 2016 General Election.
Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump.
Pause. . . let that sink in.
She won the popular vote.
That's why Democrats have been talking about abolishing the Electoral College since 2016, and why Republicans have been defending it. When Cynthia Lummis noted in her campaign that "they even want to do away with the Electoral College" what she was really stating is that if the popular vote decided Presidential elections HIllary Clinton, not Donald Trump, would have been running for reelection. I.e., the majority would decide.
Democrats didn't like that, until probably now. This race is so close that Democrats will now be able to take advantage of the Electoral Vote exaggeration. I.e, at the time I'm writing this Donald Trump has 214 elector votes and Biden 290. Biden is probably going to exceed 300. It'll look, therefore, like he swamped Donald Trump. He didn't. He barely won.
He did get more votes than Trump, however.
Which isn't too surprising, there are more Democrats than Republicans.
All of which brings me to this. There were more votes for Democratic Presidential candidates in 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008 and 2000.
More.
So all this stuff about voter fraud. . . is just hoping against hope.
It didn't happen.
Pretending it does is adopting a fiction, and that's dangerous to those who adopt it and in the end to reality.
Conservatives did really, really well this election. They might have kept the Senate, we don't know yet, and they gained in the U.S. House and State Houses. That's something to build on.
And Donald Trump, in spite of all of his vices, had some real accomplishments. Judiciary appointments were prime among them.
Moving forward involves looking forward. The Presidential Election of 2020 shouldn't become the Republican Lost Cause. The 2016 Presidential Election, in real terms, was a gift, and 2016 to 2020 breathing room. Conservatives need to move on.
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