Trump's Sound & Fury Will Signify Nothing-He's just a bully, after all. They get thumped in the end.

[kpete]

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By Timothy L. O'Brien
November 23, 2020, 3:00 AM PST


All bluster, no bite. Photographer: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

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At the end of the day, Trump at his core is who Trump has always been — a vaudevillian bully. His history is also chock-full of examples of people and institutions that not only stood up to him but also batted him back after he puffed his chest and swung his fists.

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There are more examples of the bully being thumped, just as there are myriad examples of Trump manipulating institutions and making end runs around the law. At the end of the day, however, Trump didn’t make the media crumble, the courts acquiesce, law enforcement look away or Democrats succumb. He has inflicted long-term damage on public trust and leadership, visibly rendered in the nation’s failed response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but he hasn’t managed to fashion a throne for himself despite his fascination with dictators, propaganda and blunt force.

The endgame that is afoot won’t conclude well for Trump. The flotilla of ridiculous lawsuits he and his cohorts have filed claiming voting fraud have been beaten back so steadily and consistently that Team Trump was forced to change tactics. They’re now openly pushing for a coup by seeking interventions from Republican-led state legislatures to simply overturn the popular vote and Biden’s victory. But ballot counting in the presidential election hasn’t been delayed, no ballots that were counted were subsequently tossed out, and no court has yet to postpone any state’s certification of the results.

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[Chemisse]

1. Traumatized worrier. That's me.

I won't feel safe until Biden is inaugurated. But articles like this help.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. same here

I will be able to relax when Biden is in charge.These four years feel like a decade. I want trump to dissapear and fade fast from the public eyes.