Democracy (and Trump) died in darkness.

Don’t over-think Biden’s implausible vote accumulation before first considering what he represents. He vowed a return to decency, but his family’s pay-to-play scheme hangs over his head. He promised normalcy, but his “midnight special” victory is as paranormal as grandma’s ghost in the attic. If 74,000,000 Trump voters aren’t breaking windows and torching cop cars, it doesn’t mean they trust the vote totals. They still think Biden is a Manchurian Candidate created by the Swamp.

After the 2016 election, Democrats claimed Russian bots on Facebook gave the election to Trump, making him “not their president.” Before the 2020 election, Facebook and Twitter deleted posts about evidence of Biden pay-to-play schemes. The bots were unfortunate, but the censorship was unconstitutional. There’s no way conservative bloggers, pundits, and reporters will forgive and forget how social media protected Biden.

Legacy media, like Newsweek and the Washington Post, have worked a little too hard to anoint Biden; fact-checking reports of foul play in Fulton County (GA) and calling them a “hoax” – except their fact-checking Georgia election official, Regina Waller, is a suspect. She claims there “was never an announcement made to the media and other observers about the counting being over and them needing to leave.” Oops!

As it turns out, CCTV video from Election Night shows Republican observers being dismissed at 10:30 – – right before Ms. Waller told ABC News and NBC News that “election officials” had sent “absentee ballot counters home at 10:30” because “counting was done for the night.” Whistle blowers in sworn affidavits claim “trunks of ballots” were opened and counted after midnight. Voila! A midnight-bounce for Biden.

How Biden accumulated votes defies Republican trust. Black support for Biden fell well below 90%, the must-have number for previous winning Democrats. So, the overnight eruption of black votes in Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, which provided his winning margins in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, are implausible. Mind you, Biden spikes in those three cities, coincidentally, were not matched elsewhere (source: The Spectator).

Winning presidential challengers almost always have down-ballot coattails, but Biden (maybe) helped a single US senator. In fact, the GOP gained house seats, governor’s mansions, and state houses. Stranger still, Biden won fewer counties (17%) than any presidential candidate in US history. That’s right: he under-performed everyone WHO EVER RAN for president. How is it even possible that Biden won 350 fewer counties than Obama in 2008 and got 12,000,000 more votes?

One doesn’t have to be a cynic to reject the results in an election in which 50,000 Pennsylvania votes on 47 USB drives went missing and 20,312 votes were cast in Georgia by non-residents (source: Voter Integrity Project). And, despite partisan media pushback, dead people really did vote in Georgia and Nevada (source: New York Post). To be sure, elections have consequences, but accepting deplorable-dolt status isn’t one on them. Respect the office, but don’t bow to Biden.

By Spencer Morten

The writer is a retired CEO of a US corporation, whose views were informed by studies and work in the US and abroad. An economist by education, and pragmatist by experience, he believes the greatest threat to peace and prosperity are the loudest voices with the least experience and expertise.