Donald Trump thinks he won the election. He also thinks that the reason it looks like he may not have won the election is massive voting fraud. At least, he says he thinks that. He said he won the so-called popular vote in 2016, too, and the only reason that it looked like he didn’t was massive voting fraud. Donald Trump would stroke out if he tried to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth for 22 consecutive minutes, and so no serious person takes him seriously on the subject of vote fraud. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t fraud; it means you can’t count on the president of the United States to tell the truth. He surely is not going to tell the truth about losing the election to a man he insisted was one part mob boss and one part eggplant.
Joe Biden thinks he won the election. The Associated Press thinks he won, too. But the landslide some of his friends (and provisional friends) were predicting did not come to pass. His showing against the man he insisted was obviously and self-evidently the worst president in the history of these United States is not what one would have expected running against a man who was obviously and self-evidently the worst president in the history of these United States. He very well may end up having eked out a very slim win only to spend his time in office having his ideas, to the modest extent that he has ideas, ruthlessly smothered to death by Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans. Biden did not exactly sell his immortal soul to the Left in order to unify the party behind him, but he did give Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders a long-term lease on it, with excellent terms, which may have been a bad bargain: He got into bed with a clutch of self-declared socialists and then lost bigly in Florida as Latinos with some intimate experience of that wretched ideology said: ¡Socialismo, no! Biden will be faced with a choice between hobbling his own agenda by knuckling under to the battiest Berkeleyest nut-cutlets or throwing the Left under the bus and wonder where Kamala Harris is hiding the icepick.
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