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The Method (we’ve seen it all before)

This is how the coming crisis begins: with an announcement that defeat will be treated as evidence of wrongdoing.

The count will produce losses. The losses will produce accusations. The accusations will become demands for investigations, delays and interventions. Each demand will give Republican officials a choice between their public obligations and the president’s wishes.

I predict that too many will choose him.

Some will repeat allegations they have never examined. Others will say they are merely asking questions. Others will insist that a temporary delay is a reasonable accommodation to millions of concerned Americans, without acknowledging who deliberately made those Americans afraid.

The delay will then become evidence that something must be wrong. The investigation will become evidence that a crime must have occurred. The accusation will validate itself through the machinery set in motion to examine it.

An honest election worker will become a suspect in a story written before the ballots arrived.

That is where the societal danger lies. Millions of people will be told that their country has been stolen. They will hear this from the president, from elected officials, and from personalities who have built careers selling betrayal to an audience trained to expect it.

steveschmidt.substack.com - Trumps next big lie if he loses the

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