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Trump Delegitimizes the Election
This should come as no surprise. After all, the president’s son, Donald Trump Junior floated this idea not too long ago. This is to delay the general election. So today the President did the same, and this should be no surprise. There are several reasons for this. First Donald Trump trails in the polls, and likely will lose in a landslide. If there is something he cannot accept is that he is not as popular as he believes he is. He even told us this the other day, during one of his pressers. While 150,000 have died from COVID, he aired his grievances. People listen to the experts, but “nobody likes me.” It was a very revealing moment when Trump showed the scared boy that still lives inside that damaged shell.
Realize that he also said he would not accept the results in 2016 either. Again, he is in some ways that a very scared boy who is still in a shell, the bully who cannot believe maybe there will be consequences. This will be the first time in his life where he is rejected and suffers very real effects for his actions. So if this is surprising to you, it’s time to start paying attention. We have been moving towards this moment for some time.
So why today? Trump knows how to capture the news cycle. We know that last quarter the economy contracted by one third. According to the Washington Post:
The second-quarter report on gross…