I have a question for Coach and everyone else who thinks the election was stolen, whatever form that steal took.
If they were able to steal this election, what hope is there that conservatives will ever win again? Realistically.
What is the game plan Coach? Things like "Latinos for Trump?" Really? Those tens of millions of illegals who will now be made citizens, will they tend to vote conservative or democrat? What kind of politics does Latin America have?
Is this smart conservative strategy?
I'd call it a soft steal. There was a concerted, 4 year propaganda campaign against Trump. Anything bad got megaphoned, while anything good got ignored. It was more than just partisan or unfair. They bludgeoned us daily. Pravda has nothing on the US press. I've never seen bias like that. The script writing was blatant and has left me without any faith in the information I receive.
Then add to that Old Joe being basically led by the hand into the Oval Office by a media that gushed endlessly about how wonderful this Great Oz (whom we never see) and his Veep (who got no love in her primaries) are going to save us all... somehow uniting...even tho actual policies rarely got mentioned. I understand Coach's incredulity. I agree. There's no way with this guy. But it happened. He got installed.
My own view, that Trump is an idiot, I formed from watching him flounder at the podium, but I'd take his policies over Biden's any day. I differ with Coach that it was a 'hard steal' in the sense that Trump actually won on votes. Trump has had plenty of time to present evidence straight to the public. They said repeatedly that they have it and it just never materializes. By materialize, I mean Donald Trump, at a podium with charts built from verifiable data, saying "Here it is." They promised nothing less. If he had it, that is exactly what he'd be doing every day.
Fwiw I don't believe it's as simple as "The Socialist Commies want to take over." Yes, they exist and they want to but then Bernie is the guy, right? He got shoved out twice. Probably because he's actually a socialist who would try to use government power to steer corporate power, which is backwards. And I liked what Tulsi had to say but somebody sure didn't. All that crazy talk about no more American soldiers dying in pointless wars
Who wants business as usual? Who wants endless wars and a court rubber-stamped surveillance state? Who demands a nice marionette President and Presidentette instead of this jackass who people follow instead of following directions? Yeah, I think there are entrenched interests and they mean business about staying in power. They would have Kennedyed him if he wasn't more useful as a heel.
That's what I saw happen. A freak out. People didn't follow directions in 2016 and this egomaniacal wild man got in. Then we got to see the carrot and stick machine kick into high gear. Divide and corral. Deify and vilify. Churn out the consent of the governed to get things "back on track." Bet your ass there are contingencies to make sure this sort of thing never ever happens again.
The guy was right. It's a swamp. But it'll never let you drain it. The world got stolen out from under us before any of us were even born. Life is good but let's not kid ourselves that there's democracy. You might get a Republican again, and they'll do the 'ol Grant Your Little Wish thing so you'll agree they're in charge but you'll never get someone who isn't a puppet. I don't think Donald was one. Anyone who isn't going to play ball, you have their entire political career to see them coming but Trump managed to fly in on a perfect storm of Hillary's complete lack of charisma, Wikileaks, celebrity worship, soundbyte culture, and working class angst. It scared the bejesus out of them.
TLDR
Did Trump win? No.
Would he have won? Yes.