Taking Acception Exception

Back in September of our Covid year, I was sitting outside on the deck with my 96 year-old dad who grew up in Poland during WWII, was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and spent years fighting the Nazis as part of a Partisan group. I mentioned that the numbers were looking pretty good for Biden, and Trump was starting to lose his grip (political and mental). My dad said, “Yeah, but he’ll never accept the results.” It was one of many predictions my dad got right over the years. He didn’t live long enough to witness January 6, but nothing about it would have surprised him. He’d seen these kinds of stories play out before. It’s about time that everyone stops being surprised by the extent to which Trump (and his enablers) will go to overturn election results. The latest example: Armed with new powers granted by the SCOTUS majority, “the Trump administration has forced out the three remaining members of an independent, bipartisan commission that supports states in administering their elections, the White House confirmed on Thursday. The move comes as President Trump seeks to cast doubt on the outcome of the upcoming midterms and impose control over how ballots are counted.” NYT (Gift Article): Trump Administration Fires Members of Independent Election Group. “Mr. Trump has been laying the groundwork for months to claim that Republicans would face a tough midterm election, not because of the broadly unpopular war in Iran and plummeting approval ratings on the economy, but because the country’s election system is fraudulent.”