Mark Meadows, Trump's White House chief of chaos, tweeted this week that there is "mounting evidence of voter fraud."
If "mounting evidence" translates into a tiny number of incidents, as the Washington Post reports, then indeed there are mounting cases of voter fraud, "some of them … [involving] Republican voters aiming to help Trump."
In Pennsylvania, for example, three voters "have been charged with voting illegally this year — all Republicans." The state's lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, said two of the cases were "out of a Benny Hill skit." (He "cited the cases in response to a call-out on Twitter by his Texas counterpart, Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who offered a $1 million reward for anyone who brought forward a valid complaint of fraud. Fetterman requested that his reward money be paid in gift cards to Sheetz gas stations. Patrick, he said, has so far 'stiffed' him on the offer.")
Downright mind-boggling is that Trump has managed to brainwash so many Americans — 88 percent of his voters — into believing that President-elect Biden and his diabolical team somehow pulled off an illegitimate election. Just. Mind-boggling. I knew, of course, that the Republican base has long been an aggregation of the always outraged, the untiringly malicious and the stupendously gullible, but only rarely did I suspect that nearly all of them are clinically, pathologically nuts.
Any longer, it seems pointless to repeat this warning; but perhaps that in itself presents the danger that we might soon forget our four-year nightmare: Should the above aggregation's electoral strength ever regain what it achieved in 2016 — throngs of wavelike madness, quite similar to the current, physical pandemic — America as a beacon for any manner of decency will, to borrow from Sen. John Thune, go down like a shot dog. And unlike this time, it won't resurrect.