It Never Ends

So here we are in the New Year, two months and more since Trump lost by seven-plus million votes, and he is still campaigning--last night in Georgia, last Saturday on the telephone, pleading with Georgia's secretary of state to just "give him a break" and find him the 11,780 votes he needs to win the state, and 24/7 via his motley crew of surrogates since November 3rd. After his 60-plus failed legal challenges, all that he'd need to be "reelected" if he had Georgia in his grasp is to overturn the election in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and/or Wisconsin--or to simply browbeat his Vice President into refusing to confirm the election results before Congress tomorrow. As grotesquely authoritarian as his efforts are, as blatantly contemptuous of the "will of the people" and all that, they would be pathetic if there wasn't a considerable likelihood that they will work. As the still-compliant Republicans keep saying, the evidence for massive Democratic cheating is blatant, obvious, and undeniable, except for the fact that it's invisible and impossible to prove. Cruz, Hawley et al are betting their careers on Trump rather than democracy.

Trump won't be able to hold onto power if he does pull off his coup, but how do we ever come back from this as a country? The children have been watching and listening. They've seen it all.