This disaster was 220 years in the making.
An excellent Podcast that covers both sides of this issue.
The election of 1800 was the first time in world history that power was passed PEACEFULLY between competing democratically elected political parties with the "losers" accepting the results. It was VERY close ... Jefferson and Madison tied in the Electoral College. (the scare quotes mean that when democracy works, everyone is really a winner in the slightly longer term)
In 1860 the LOSERS did not accept the results and it resulted in the Civil War. (no scare quotes ... everyone really lost, to the tune of 600-750K lives)
Right now we have a "Cold Civil War" that has been going on since "Watergate". Politics is "war by other means" -- but in order for it to stay "other means", the results of elections must be accepted.
The precedent now firmly established by the Democrats is that when a Republican gets elected president and the Congress goes Democrat, the Republican will almost certainly be impeached in the House unless he governs as a Democrat (RINO). This didn't happen overnight -- from Watergate on, the Republican Party never figured out that the Democratic Party / Deep State / MSM / etc was at war. Trump figured it out.
It has been totally obvious if one looked behind the MSM curtain -- Iran Contra, Bork, Tower, Thomas, letting Bill Clinton (and the whole Clinton Crime Family) slide, not accepting the results of the 2000 election (much less questionable than 1960), etc ...
We are now essentially converted to a Parliamentary system -- the Democrats broke the country by war in 1860, they have broken it by politics in 2020.
This time it is the purest of partisan politics -- they know impeachment won't pass in the Senate, and likely will not even get a majority, but they have been playing the long game since the beginning. Their base demanded that the election not be honored, so that is how they have have proceeded. They have always wanted "pure democracy", and realize (and applaud) that will quickly become centralized totalitarian rule by "experts" (Socialism). They are much more honest about that today at least.
We all get tired of the old "this election is the most important in your lifetime" and sadly, like the next breath of a person at death's door, it just gets truer and truer. Since Roe, Obergfell, etc. we now only await a SCOTUS "progressive" majority to lose the Electoral College, and then most likely be forced to solve our differences in the sad manner of 1860.
America was always an experiment -- nobody else had a Republic like we were handed by the founders. Keeping a Republic requires an educated public that understands what it means and pays attention. If the 2020 election is a landslide for Republicans followed by Ginsberg being replaced, and the SCOTUS finally acting to reign in the Deep State, we might actually get some real progress on returning to being America vs BOistan.
If it is close, we "muddle on", if God forbid, it is a big win for the Ds, then I hope and pray it is fairly civil Red/Blue divorce vs an actual shooting war.
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