For John, BLUF: The hypocrisy is strong in the Democrats. Nothing to see here; just move along.
From The New York Post, by Columnist Michael Barone, 4 December 2020.
Here is the lede plus one:
“My sense is that if Trump wins, Hillary supporters will be sad,” left-wing writer Sally Kohn tweeted the day of the 2016 election. “If Hillary wins, Trump supporters will be angry. Important difference.” Kohn turned out to be wrong about her own side that year, which angrily set about delegitimizing Donald Trump’s victory. She was wrong, too, in her apparent assumption — shared by shop owners who boarded up their windows — that Trump supporters would react as violently to his defeat as the Black Lives Matter movement reacted to a death in Minneapolis.There is more to the article than these two paragraphs. After surveying the numbers, the writer goes on to look at reactions in 2016. Twice, in twao adjacent paragraphs he writes "in violation of longstanding norms" to talk about how Democrats♠ acted in 2016.Which is not to say President Trump and many of his supporters are responding gracefully to their candidate’s failure to repeat his 2016 feat of winning the presidency by a margin of 77,736 votes in three crucial states (Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania). They are not consoled that Joe Biden’s margin of victory in this year’s three crucial states (Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin) was an even smaller 43,809 votes.
Yes, the Democrats are reaping what they sowed in 2016 and 2017. It is to their advantage that they hold the House of Representatives going into 2021. Will they be so lucky in 2023?♥ If the Democrats don't clean up their act there could be interesting hearings in 2023 and 2024.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
♠ And, I would add, the established bureaucracy.
♥ While one can steal an election on the margin, if the voting is overwhelming for the other side then stealing will be obvious to the casual observer, and that is a bad look for the theives.
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