Hope its Over

We aren't out of the woods yet. Written 12/4/2020.  Updated 12/9/2020

The SCOTUS denied CERT for Trumps latest frivolous lawsuit today. It's over for Trumps Presidency.

Adolf Hitler, along with others, tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923. They failed.  Hitler was convicted of Treason. He wrote Mein Kampf from prison. He was made a hero. The Judiciary had sided with him. He came back to power 10 years later and ended the German Republic, replacing it with the "Third Reich."

Sturm and Drang, Dolchstoßlegende

The Germans had been traumatized by the

• “Spanish Flu”
• The horrors of trench war and utterly futile two front warfare.
• The betrayals of the peace negotiation led by Woodrow Wilson,

The "peace" with the Brits, French and Americans, involved betrayals and was labeled Dolchstoßlegende, "Stabbed in the back legend." it was sold as an explanation of Germany's loss. “We didn't lose the war, we were stabbed in the back” morphed into “We lost due to the Jews”, became a vicious antisemitic narrative that appealed to Germans suffering depression, inflation and a society that seemed to be deteriating. Hitler came to power, partly, on the strength of this Dolchstoßlegende lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth

Trump's Sturm and Drang, Con

Trump is trying to build such a Dolchstoßlegende about his election. To him, this narrative addresses 3 deep ego needs.

1. As a Narcissist, he cannot handle losing. So he has responded to loss his whole life by calling the people he lost to corrupt.

1985, rejected in efforts to buy an NFL team, accused the NFL of rigging

1986, lost Antitrust suitt, called the courts rigged.

1987, lost investment in Alexanders, lied about it.

1989, Lost Bid on Seminole casino project, screamed “fraud” also has spent rest of his life on a vendetta against Indiginious since then.

1989, Father bailed out his Casino, but it eventually went bankrupt....

1990, called analyst warning of Trump Taj Mahal risks, a fraud and liar.

Much more... but these come from Kurt Eichenwald (and I could look up his sources because I've verified them many times) https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1335778561572016128

2. He thinks he can run again in 2024. Meanwhile, his narcissistic feed requires an angry lynch mob supporting him. It's no accident angry mobs assaulted the Secretary State of Michigan during the first week of December. Right Wing groups live on grievance and Dolchstoßlegende like narratives.
3. He hoped to overturn the election. And might have succeeded if the election had been closer, or if his COVID response hadn't been so numbskull.

Trump's Sedition

Trump's effort to overthrow the election is sedition. Unfortunately, with Trump we can expect years of sturm and drang from Trump – eventually he will fail, but the big worry is that whoever picks up the standard after he is tried and convicted of a long list of crimes or finally strokes out — will carry on from where he left off. What Hitler did was sedition. Trump is doing sedition too.



SAFE ACT

Meantime we need to shore up our democracy against these fascists. All the complaints trump is making about the need for paper ballots and better process, are stolen (like most of his better rhetoric), from Progressives and Democrats.