2020 US election - The fat lady is warming up in the wings

[GethN7]

if he does ultimately lose.

I would point out that by the laws of this nation, the fat lady is not only on the stage, she's standing before the mike, and the curtain is up.  All she's waiting for is the conductor to wave his baton.

Trump is not "ensuring his rights" and his toadies are not "pursuing election fraud" -- even Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court majority has called bullshit on all that.  Trump is engaged in trying to effect an autogolpe, a coup by which he will remain in power against the will of the people.  If he is president of the United States after January 20, it will not be because he won, it will be because he and his lickspittles will have neutered the Constitution for their own benefit and denied the Presidency to the legitimate holder of that office.

In fairness, I see your point, Biden all but has this, but even if this legal stuff is a farce, it's a farce we must play out because this isn't the first time it has happened, and I for one am just grateful Trump cannot just make himself an unironic dictator in the sense of ordering his re-election through force of arms.

So long as that remains true and power does not devolve to growing strictly out of the barrel of a gun, I say let the farce continue, I'd rather the rule of law hamstring any attempt at a coup bought in actual blood if this must continue.

From where I'm sitting, it will only be time to panic when Trump can seize power at the tip of a bayonet, then I will not only denounce him, but also agree completely all hope is lost for representative democracy.