It’s all up to Georgia voters to turn back the revolution
“In victory, magnanimity... in defeat, defiance.”
That counsel about human conflict comes from Winston Churchill.
And President Donald Trump, given all he has endured for five years from those piously pleading now for a “time of healing,” cannot be faulted for his defiant resolve to unearth any and all high crimes or misdemeanors committed in the counting of ballots.
Trump owes his people this, and he owes the establishment nothing.
Yet, in making this his priority, Trump should be mindful of several realities. From what we have seen so far, the prospect that the decision in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona or Georgia will be overturned does not appear high.
Indeed, it seems a certainty that not enough electoral votes could be flipped to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral vote victory.
FROM THE RIGHT
Ross Douthat Star Parker
Jonah Goldberg Walter E. Williams Pat Buchanan Marc A. Thiessen George Will And Trump should realize that in alleging fraud, he is creating an imperative upon himself and his team to provide the evidence to prove it.
In politics as in poker, there comes a time when you have to show your cards or fold your hand. Are the cards there?
Trump should also be aware that his reputation, the causes he has served, and the future of both, will be influenced by how he conducts himself in what appears to be an inevitable defeat.
Richard Nixon, in the 1960 election against JFK, declined to challenge the returns from Illinois, which he lost by 9,000 votes, though journalists then and historians have contended that the state was almost surely stolen in Cook County.
Nixon chose not to challenge the Illinois count.
Among the reasons was that, even had he done so successfully, after a brutal battle like the BushGore contest in Florida, and even had Illinois been shifted into his column, he would have been short of the 270 electoral votes needed.
Also, while Trump and his campaign are devoting time and resources to the ballot count in battleground states, a last crucial battle is shaping up in Georgia, where the stakes are second only to the presidency.
Minutes after Biden declared victory last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer exulted,
“Now we take Georgia, and then we change the world.”
Schumer was referring to the two Senate races that will be decided Jan. 5, both runoffs where none of the four candidates got the Georgia-required 50% of the vote on Nov. 3.
Republican Sen. David Perdue won 49.7%, just short of the 50% that would have ensured
GOP control of the Senate through 2022. Perdue faces a runoff against 33-year-old Jon Ossoff.
The other race is between Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who is seeking to fill out the full term of Johnny Isakson who stepped down from the Senate in 2019 for health reasons. She is opposed by African American pastor Raphael Warnock.
If Ossoff and Warnock both win, Democrats take control of the Senate. Schumer will be the new majority leader, displacing Mitch McConnell. And all tie votes will be decided by the new Senate President and Vice President Kamala Harris, who, as of 2020, was, by her voting record, the most radical member of the entire body.
Yet, all that is needed to block this rising radical revolution is for the GOP to win one of the two Georgia Senate seats.
If the Democrats lose either race, the Bernie-BLM-antifa-AOC revolution may just end up devouring its children.