Not Fraud, Just Democracy in Action
Elections are never over. Their consequences live on.
It’s the high price we pay for freedom of expression in the voting booth. And most of the time we deserve it, to squeeze in a thought from H. L. Mencken.
Right up front, to borrow a few words that Thomas Edsall, of The New York Times, recycled from a New Yorker article by Jane Mayer, let us pause to reflect on the man America chose as its leader four years ago:
“More than a dozen investigations and civil suits involving Trump are now underway. Yet Trump has famously survived one impeachment, two divorces, six bankruptcies, 26 accusations of sexual misconduct and an estimated 4,000 lawsuits,” according to Edsall and Mayer.
Yes, but he just lost the biggest fight of his pyrite-plated life, the first incumbent president to be ejected from office since George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Read more: https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/11/09/frank-defilippo-not-fraud-just-democracy-in-action/