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Trump campaign now declaring victory in Pennsylvania or something; Update: Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan too

I don t use this word lightly: This is evil behavior. They re going to try to stop valid votes from being counted with no thought whatsoever for the civic consequences. If they fail, the country will be ungovernable. Some huge chunk of Trump fans, egged on relentlessly by the (ex-)president, will cling to the myth that Biden won in a fraudulent way so that they needn t acknowledge that he s the legitimate president. If on the other hand they succeed, the country will be ungovernable. Cutting off the counting of lawful ballots to engineer a second Trump term will be viewed as a coup, nothing more or less.

A normal human being would weigh all that and think, If doing this would tear America apart no matter how it turns out then we shouldn t do it. There s no value in having a second term when the entirety of it would be devoted to managing the fallout from that. But a pathological narcissist doesn t care about that. He cares about winning, whatever it means for the country he s in charge of.

via hotair.com

Everyone’s so upset.