Christopher Krebs, who was recently fired from his position as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for doing his job — and called a "class-A moron" by Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova, who added that "he should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot" — is relentlessly counterpunching Trump and his hooligans. From Krebs' Washington Post op-ed:
Americans’ confidence in the security of the 2020 election is entirely justified. Paper ballots and post-election checks ensured the accuracy of the count. Consider Georgia: The state conducted a full hand recount of the presidential election, a first of its kind, and the outcome of the manual count was consistent with the computer-based count. Clearly, the Georgia count was not manipulated, resoundingly debunking claims by the president and his allies about the involvement of CIA supercomputers, malicious software programs or corporate rigging aided by long-gone foreign dictators.
Krebs concludes by writing, "The 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history. This success should be celebrated by all Americans, not undermined in the service of a profoundly un-American goal."
Facts, all facts, while Trump & Co. offers nothing but raving, unhinged, utterly baseless accusations of election fraud.
What still astounds, even after centuries of assorted Big Lies as effective political weaponry, is that roughly 65 million Americans — 88 percent of Trump voters, which makes numerical sense, seeing that "88" is neoNazi shorthand for "Heil Hitler," "H" being the 8th letter of the alphabet — so willingly discount official facts in favor of nothing but bullshit.
The "information highway" and to some extent social media were to strengthen knowledgeable participation in American democracy. But so far, at least, they are proving themselves perhaps its greatest threat. Tyrants and would-be tyrants understand better than conscientious Americans how to "inform" the most ignorant and yet loudest among us.