Sixty years of political experience have taught me that secular leftists, unlike most traditional conservatives and liberals, often don’t play by the rules.
Commentary
When I said in a
TV interview that I didn’t know who won the 2020 presidential election, I was expressing a view similar to that held by a
very large cohort of Americans. That didn’t stop two left-leaning news websites from targeting me last year with investigative stories. Why? Perhaps they were trying to get me hauled up before the House of Representatives Jan. 6 committee.
In American history, there have been several contested presidential elections, including in 1960 and 2000. Some people doubted the certified results. But the victors either debated the doubters or ignored them. I don’t know of any election after which the victors excommunicated doubters as secular heretics—“election deniers.”
The establishment’s insistence that everyone sing the same tune about the 2020 election looks too much like “the lady doth protest too much” to be reassuring. I suspect that some of the election affirmers have their own secret doubts.
Secret doubts may explain why the establishment media so loudly denied any serious irregularities only hours after the election, before anyone could have conducted a serious investigation. Secret doubts may explain the haste to cite the failure of former President Donald Trump’s courtroom strategy as “evidence” of the absence of problems—although nearly all his lawsuits were dismissed on procedural grounds, not on the merits.
Secret doubts also may explain the media’s insistence on referring to all claims of election irregularities as allegations of “fraud.” In fact, some of the most serious alleged irregularities weren’t literally fraudulent. They fit into other categories of wrongdoing.
Despite the pervasive claim that the 2020 election was the cleanest presidential contest ever, disturbing bits of circumstantial evidence simply won’t go away. Some bits are merely odd—like the fact that nearly all the
bellwether counties voted for President Trump rather than President Joe Biden. Another is that President Biden garnered more votes than any other presidential candidate in history, despite his obvious political shortcomings and minimal campaigning.
Other bits of evidence are more weighty, and some of these remain undenied and perhaps undeniable. The shady influence of
“Zuckerbucks.” Social media censorship. The widespread disregard of a constitutionally authorized
federal statute requiring a single-day election.
The Trump haters at Time Magazine summarized what happened in a
post-election piece: “The participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream—a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”
Admittedly, Time Magazine claimed that this was “not rigging the election; [but] fortifying it.”
