A lot of folks on the left are criticizing Donald Trump for claiming that the vote last Tuesday was fraudulent. I don't know if it was or not, but gee whiz, does anyone seriously think listless Joe Biden really won something like six million more votes than Barack Obama received in 2008 and 15 million more than Hillary Clinton got in 2016?!
We should remember this the next time we hear someone say miracles don't happen.
Anyway, Trump is being told by our media overseers that he should stop making such an unseemly fuss and just go away quietly. What short memories we have.
1. The Democrats fought tooth and nail for Al Gore in Florida after the 2000 election. They didn't concede until every last scintilla of hope was extinguished, and after Gore finally did concede a month or so after the election the Democrats continued to insist that he was the real president and that George W. Bush had stolen the office.
2. After the 2016 election millions of people signed petitions urging the electors who were to cast their ballot in the electoral college for Trump to "do the right thing" and vote for Clinton even though they were pledged to vote for Trump.
3. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats have been claiming for four years that Trump is an illegitimate president. They offer not a shred of evidence, but they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of his tenure nonetheless.
4. When Stacey Abrams challenged the results of her governor's race in Georgia in 2018 the media cheered for her and urged her not to give up. She still claims that the election was rigged, that she actually won, and she's still being feted by progressives and the media.
5. Hillary Clinton adjured Joe Biden that if he was behind when the networks called the election he "should not concede under any circumstances."
By claiming that the results reported from several swing states are fraudulent, and refusing to concede until every legal recourse is explored, Trump is only following the precedent the Democrats themselves have created. Now they're criticizing him for doing what they themselves have done and, were circumstances reversed, would be doing again today.