Fortifying the Election

For John, BLUF:  This helps to explain what happened last year, during the election of the US President.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

From Time Magazine, by Reporter Molly Ball, 4 February 2021, 5:40 AM EST.

Here is an excerpt:

To the President, something felt amiss.  “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2.  “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

In a way, Trump was right.

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.  Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.  The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day.  Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

Here is how Time sees the effort—"fortifying":

That’s why 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.  They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.  And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

I was doubtful that the Democrafts stole the election, or that it could be proven.  Now I am convinced that the election was fortified.

Here is another view of it, from PJ Media, today.

And here is Columnist James Delingole's take, in Breitbart.  It has an interesting spin on the article.

Regards  —  Cliff