No. of Recommendations: 10
Based on this, then, what understanding and insight have you discerned from all of the back and forth with the Dope (that you otherwise did not know beforehand)?
Insight into the rationalizations that the right wing will use to assert that the 2024 election was stolen, if Trump loses. Dope enumerated several contingent events which he believes would justify a conclusion that the election wasn't fair. Since it's a dead certainty that at least some of those things will happen somewhere (our election is sprawling and involves tens of thousands of people in sometimes ramshackle conditions, so the law of law numbers means that something will go wrong a little bit somewhere), it helps to know that that's one of the things the right wing will be focusing on.
It's also helpful to know that despite the fact that this is essentially just saying that if Trump loses it means the election wasn't fair, that this is the rationalization structure that the right wing is building for itself. Not just that they'll point to the inevitable hiccups in the election process as signs of deliberate perfidy, but also that they genuinely won't acknowledge to themselves the difference between being upset at a true thing that the left wing acknowledged as true (Donald Trump won the 2016 election) and being upset at a false thing that the right wing refuses to see is false (Donald Trump won the 2020 election).
