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I think it is inevitable that something will happen that right wing partisans will characterize as nefarious, even though it is not. They are already deeply suspicious of the entire process to the point where they see conspiracies around every corner.
That's right. And why is that? Because sketchy stuff *does* in fact happen.
You have to AT LEAST grant that some of these things at a minimum look bad when viewed with a jaundiced eye.
You're saying that the right wing will riot only if X happens. But that's not entirely accurate. At best, your statement is that the right wing will riot only if they believe that X has happened. It doesn't matter whether X actually happened - if they believe it happened, they will not accept the outcome as fair.
That is what I'm saying, yes.
So whether the right wing "riots" or not doesn't depend on whether any of the things actually happen, but whether someone tells the right wing that they happened.
That's entirely possible, because perception drives what people conceive of reality.
Flipping this around, left wingers believe the MSG rally was a Nazi lovefest and that Trump is a fascist hellbent on suspending the Constitution. Because that's what they've been told. Hence, a left wing riot is a 99% certainty after a Trump win.
