• Online edgelords are not the first perils Odysseus has had to navigate between.
• In a national address, President Donald Trump insisted, again, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Trump described intelligence pointing to China’s acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files, which include names, addresses, phone numbers, and party registrations. He said that members of the “deep state” had withheld evidence of attempts by China to meddle in the 2020 election from his daily intelligence briefings back then. Obviously, any effort by China to hack voter files or interfere with U.S. elections should be investigated. That said, Trump presented no evidence that China deleted or changed votes in an effort to elect Joe Biden. After years of flyspeck examination of everything having to do with the 2020 elections, Trump and his partisans have found no evidence that electoral cheating accounted for the results. This year’s election, meanwhile, deserves some presidential attention. Trump’s approval rating has been sinking, and Republicans face an uphill battle. Trying, lamely, to revive widely unpopular “stolen election” claims won’t make their job any easier.
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