Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States, because the US Congress certified him as winner of the disputed 2020 Election--without the consent of the American voting public.
While I'm personally disappointed, I can't say that President Trump had any option left after his running mate, Vice-President Mike Pence, sided with Biden.
My opinion, as expressed previously in other blog posts, is that this deal between Democrats and Republicans was made long before the 2020 election, based upon Nancy Pelosi's July 2020 statement to Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC:
“The fact is whether he knows it yet or not, he will be leaving..."
That's the smoking gun that the fix was in. The GOP was against him. The Democrats were against him. The "Deep State" was against him. The Media was against him.
Only the American People were for him. Apparently, that wasn't enough.
So now we're stuck with an unelected President for the second time in my lifetime. Last time it happened, he was a Republican--Gerald Ford.
Now he's a Democrat--Joe Biden.
As this election once again demonstrated, the will of the American People seems not to be determinative in American politics.
The first President I can remember, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated.
The second, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was forced from office a few years after winning a landslide election. He was brought down by fellow Democrats, including Senator William J. Fulbright.
The third, Richard Nixon, resigned--also after a landslide victory--after impeachment was threatened. He was brought down by fellow Republicans, including Senator Howard Baker.
Then came Gerald Ford, my first unelected President, selected by Congress.
Now I have the second unelected President in my lifetime:
Democrat Joe Biden, selected by Republican Vice President Mike Pence.
Time will tell how this story ends, but I'll bet it isn't going to be pretty...
Already the level of invective and vituperation directed against President Trump and his supporters exceeded anything I have experienced.
Especially now that Nancy Pelosi has threatened a second impeachment.
If he doesn't die in prison, President Trump should count himself a lucky man.
Because they're out to get the ex-President.
Not because he failed--but because he succeeded against all odds.
Given the fact that the entire election was rigged against President Trump, I'd say he did an outstanding job. Here are some reasons:
1. He won the popular vote.
2. He won the Electoral College vote.
3. He won by a landslide.
4. The other side had to lie, cheat, and steal in order to defeat him.
5. Then they had to cover up what happened.
6. Now they have to threaten, oppress and persecute Trump supporters to keep anyone from talking about it.
7. Most importantly, Trump won despite a Coronavirus pandemic which disrupted the lives of most Americans in a way not seen since the Energy Crisis of the 1970s that defeated President Carter.
Usually bad times hurt an incumbent President--but this time Americans gave President Trump millions of votes he didn't have in 2016, because they saw he was trying his best to help them while his opponents were trying to exploit the situation to their own advantage.
And Trump did it with completely negative media coverage, opposition from government bureaucrats, Wall Street, Fortune 500 executives, charities, churches, schools, colleges and universities, former Defense Secretaries, and pretty much everyone else of consequence in the American Establishment.
8. Finally, even after his loss seemed permanent, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of his supporters schlepped to Washington to show support at his final White House rally...which included a "peaceful protest" against election fraud at the US Capitol.
One Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, made the ultimate sacrifice when a trigger-happy Capitol policeman shot the unarmed protester through a glass window.
In the end, Trump's supporters demonstrated they were willing to lay down their lives to save American Democracy.
Yet when VP Pence turned down his opportunity to appoint a commission to audit the votes, as Senator Ted Cruz proposed, or to return contested slates of electors to state legislatures to resolve allegations of fraud, as others had asked, the Vice-President instead decided to recognize Joe Biden's slate of electors--siding against his running-mate...and himself.
Bottom line: Congress said "F-you" to the American voting public, and the Republican Party gave an equally big "F-you" to Trump voters.
The GOP added insult to injury subsequently, when a parade of Republican Trump appointees resigned in a shower of withering denunciations and abuse hurled at their former boss.
What does this mean?
In my opinion, as a result of President Trump's failure to overturn manifest election fraud, the United States is now a de facto one-party state.
It means President Trump will be unable to protect himself or his supporters against future harassment and persecution, up to and including criminal prosecution and imprisonment.
There have been calls for blacklisting, "cleansing," and ejecting from public office anyone who supported Trump, in addition to calls for banning them from social media, from some of the most prominent public figures in the land, including former First Lady Michelle Obama.
It is an ominous development in what was once the freest society on earth.
Such "nonperson" status is well known to anyone who has lived under or studied Communism.
Nonpersons have no rights.
Period.
