Frank's Musings

The story revealed in today’s NYT about the scheme cooked up by Trump 2020 Campaign advisors including Rudi Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and others demonstrates the total contempt of the former president for any society’s rules, and that his supporters were infected by his hubris.  What it doesn’t clarify, and what the January 6 Committee has failed to explore, is what motivated Trump’s election day staff to abandon constitutional rationality in foisting hairbrained “fake elector” tactics which could only please a losing candidate who valued obsequiousness more than practical service from his supporters that might realistically appear to achieve a reversal of the election results.  Ultimately, their scheme would surely have been rejected by the courts, including the Supreme Court.  Of course, the nefariousness of the entire scheme might have depended on a plan to ignore such a Supreme Court decision, accomplishing a wholesale upset of the Constitution.  

Little did Barack Obama know that his sarcastic swipe at Donald Trump when he spoke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner would prompt a potential coup d’état.  School-yard bullies will never be able to take a joke; but they still can cause harm.  Luckily, we escaped the consequences of ignoring that threat.  Hopefully, we learned our lesson.