Election Challenges, Protests, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral Panics

[GMDino]

(11-09-2020, 10:20 AM)Nately120 Wrote: This goes back to having a hard time figuring out how much of Trump's bluster is just pandering to his base and how much he actually believes.  In this case it almost seems like he believes that there is a way for illegal ballots to affect him and only him even though it doesn't make sense.

His cries of fraud are singularly-focused.  As far as I know he isn't complaining that any democrats who won were "frauded" into power.  It's just about him and in his world with his followers the idea of a ballot with 6+ races on it only being tampered with in regards to him makes total sense.

Trump claimed he actually won the popular vote in 2016 but millions of illegal aliens voted against him.  They they formed a commission to prove his ranting and came up empty.

He can't believe he could ever lose at anything.  And he can't spin this into anything except "I was cheated".  His ego won't allow it.

Maybe we should just tell him he won?  A nice participation trophy to "sooth his ego"?

I'm sure the alpha males who support trump are all for that, right?