From the podium of the White House, President Trump baselessly ranted that “they” are trying to “rig” and “steal” an election. The president’s tirade was his first public appearance since his East Room speech on election night.
Despite polls claiming he would lose swing states by the double digits and Democrats would take the Senate and expand their House majority, Republicans pulled off a stunning feat. Beating the odds, the GOP Senate likely managed to salvage its majority. The party’s House deficit looks like it will actually narrow. And Trump, facing a black swan of a pandemic that would derail a president with twice his (underwater) approval rating, seems as though he’ll lose reelection by a slim margin in battleground states. That’s cause for celebration if you’re a team player. It’s even one if your short-term memory outlasts that of a small child. Unfortunately, that’s clearly not what we’re dealing with in the Oval Office.
So Trump, with little regard for taking the win on behalf of the party and leaving his post as the most famous man in America and a hero of the Right, had to throw a tantrum. His only saving grace is that the other side of the aisle conditioned us for such hysterics.
Consider, the entire Democratic media complex subjected the nation to three years of the conspiracy theory that first Facebook and then Russia successfully rigged the 2016 election. Even today, Hillary Clinton refuses to accept that she’s just so sour and shrill that she’s the only politician in the country capable of losing to a nonincumbent and politically bruised Trump of four years ago. And for the last two years, the Left has feted Stacey Abrams for shamelessly, well, throwing a tantrum when she lost Georgia’s gubernatorial election, just like Trump.
Yes, as the leader of the free world, Trump can’t rely on trolling or whataboutism or trolling to defend his utterly sophomoric outbursts. His behavior, regardless of justified or unjustified excuses, debases the esteemed office he somehow holds. But Democrats clutching their pearls over the embarrassment can calm down and get their own caucus in order. A good start: Discard your sore losers, and leave them in the dust where they belong.
