Tag: Dave Eggers

Cohen should know better than anyone, but we already had reason to worry. In 2016, when polls showed Hillary Clinton with a wide lead, Trump claimed the election was rigged against him. For Trump, losing is the deepest form of humiliation, and humiliation is intolerable Throughout the summer of 2016, Trump’s claim of election rigging was echoed on Fox News. Newt Gingrich spoke of “a long tradition on the part of Democratic machines of trying to steal elections”. (Among all voters, only 34% predicted a rigged election; 60% rejected the idea.) Play Video 3:32 Even after the election, Trump refused to accept that he had lost the popular vote. Still claiming election fraud, he established a presidential commission to find it. Typically, when an election is over, the peaceful transition of power reminds the public that our allegiance is not toward a particular person but to our system of government. Just last week, Steve Bannon, another of Trump’s bottom-feeders, predicted that “2019 is going to be the most vitriolic year in American politics since the civil war, and I include Vietnam in that”. We should take seriously Michael Cohen’s admonition that if Trump is defeated in 2020, he will not leave office peacefully.