In the end, all that’s left is President Donald J. Trump and the estimated 70+ million or so of us who re-elected him President of the United States. It ought not be that way, but that’s where we stand. How? Well, it would appear the president was served poorly by those whose job was to help him get elected.

Like the national Republican Party, who was obviously asleep at the switch while Democratic governors in key states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada – with Republican legislatures, no less – clearly and unconstitutionally augmented their election voting laws under the guise of taking COVID-19 precautions.

Like his Attorney General chose not to get involved in investigating anything related to systemic fraud, opting instead to basically be fired so he could spend the holidays with his family, blissfully and willingly ignorant at the controversies swirling around how this year’s presidential election was conducted.

Like his circle of advisors and his team of lawyers, who should have been paying attention to all things related to the above.

To echo Rodney Dangerfield’s old laugh line, the guy gets no respect. Heck, not even the U.S. Supreme Court, whom one might think would be interested in at least considering the way one state follows its own rules for how presidential electors are chosen versus those who don’t, seems uninterested. And this, even after Pennsylvania ignored Justice Sam Alito’s order to segregate ballots received before and after Election Day.

Not that I’m all that surprised at all this, mind you: Trump is, and will always be, a brute force to be reckoned with. He never was, and never will be, the kind of guy who easily accommodates working within someone else’s framework – he’s a businessman and a doer, not a politician who talks out of both sides of his mouth and practices the delicate art of persuasion by greasing both sides of his hands. He’s both impatient and demanding, and I’m sure the infighting reported within his administration from Day One involved people far more accustomed to the Beltway way of going about things was more than contributory in that regard. Even so, there’s no excuse for the President to be let down by his own party, his re-election team, and the supposed “army of lawyers” who assured us that they were working in the trenches to prevent the election from being stolen from him. Because they weren’t. Instead, they all appear to have been asleep at the switch thinking that the heavy lifting involving presidential elections involves only the campaign itself and not the “inside baseball” played during the prior winter, spring, and summer months when various key “battleground” states were finalizing the ground rules on how the election would be conducted.

I knew there was some factor I was missing in how the 2020 election game was being played, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. But looking back now, it should have been as clear as day. The Washington establishment (a.k.a. “the Swamp”) wanted a return to pre-Trump “go along, get along” normalcy, and that meant doing whatever was needed to toss Bernie Sanders and his legion of progressive dreamers to the slag heap for a second time in order to select a clueless, doddering, harmless swamp creature like Joe Biden to head the Democratic ticket. It didn’t matter who he chose for VP – in the end, he or she would end up doing whatever the Party establishment wanted because the fix was already set in place. Heck, the guy didn’t even venture out of his basement to campaign regularly; just enough to make the fix not so obvious to those who might suspect something was up. In that regard, fears relating to the COVID-19 pandemic provided more than enough cover.

It seemed weird to me how Biden could even be in the running with the haphazard way his campaign was being run: no door-to-door get out the vote, campaign events lacking any real coordination or enthusiasm, and zero information about what a Biden / Harris agenda would be, beyond pushing the wearing of masks. Not that Biden had to do much of anything beyond putting up the facade that a bona fide presidential campaign was being waged. After all, he had a full-court press of forces backing him and doing all the work: you had the major cable networks and the mainstream media hitting Trump with everything they had, and the Big Tech forces of Twitter, Facebook, and Google supporting them in shutting down conservative voices on their platforms and doing everything they could to suppress anything negative about Biden and his family’s corruption involving Ukraine, China, and other places.

Suckers that we were, we saw the over-the-top enthusiasm being displayed for the President at his own rallies and in the impromptu truck, motorcycle, and boat rallies created by his supporters each and every weekend. They were stunning to see. And completely ignored by the mainstream media. Little did we know that fix was in. I don’t think Biden actually meant what he said when he bragged about having the greatest election fraud organization in American history, but after the ways things have turned out one wonders.

I do think the powers-that-be were caught unaware as Trump voters piled up the numbers on Election Night – so much so that you had multiple swing states announce one after another that they were halting the counting of votes. Perhaps we’ll never know, perhaps we will one day, that software mechanisms had to be tweaked to enable the votes for Biden / Harris to be sufficiently calibrated to ensure the fix be assured.

One doesn’t need to be a mathematician or a data analyst, or a statistician looking at electoral models to know the election was stolen from Donald Trump. All you have to do is look at how the GOP mauled the Democrats in the down-ballot races and other election anomalies. As pollster Patrick Basham in the American Spectator writes:

Midwestern states Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin always swing in the same direction as Ohio and Iowa, their regional peers. Ohio likewise swings with Florida. Current tallies show that, outside of a few cities, the Rust Belt swung in Trump’s direction. Yet, Biden leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because of an apparent avalanche of black votes in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee. Biden’s ‘winning’ margin was derived almost entirely from such voters in these cities, as coincidentally his black vote spiked only in exactly the locations necessary to secure victory. He did not receive comparable levels of support among comparable demographic groups in comparable states, which is highly unusual for the presidential victor.

We are told that Biden won more votes nationally than any presidential candidate in history. But he won a record low of 17 percent of counties; he only won 524 counties, as opposed to the 873 counties Obama won in 2008. Yet, Biden somehow outdid Obama in total votes.

Victorious presidential candidates, especially challengers, usually have down-ballot coattails; Biden did not. The Republicans held the Senate and enjoyed a ‘red wave’ in the House, where they gained a large number of seats while winning all 27 toss-up contests. Trump’s party did not lose a single state legislature and actually made gains at the state level.

That ought to be sufficient evidence right there. But Basham continues:

The following peculiarities also lack compelling explanations:

1. Late on election night, with Trump comfortably ahead, many swing states stopped counting ballots. In most cases, observers were removed from the counting facilities. Counting generally continued without the observers

2. Statistically abnormal vote counts were the new normal when counting resumed. They were unusually large in size (hundreds of thousands) and had an unusually high (90 percent and above) Biden-to-Trump ratio

3. Late arriving ballots were counted. In Pennsylvania, 23,000 absentee ballots have impossible postal return dates and another 86,000 have such extraordinary return dates they raise serious questions

4. The failure to match signatures on mail-in ballots. The destruction of mail-in ballot envelopes, which must contain signatures

5. Historically low absentee ballot rejection rates despite the massive expansion of mail voting. Such is Biden’s narrow margin that, as political analyst Robert Barnes observes, ‘If the states simply imposed the same absentee ballot rejection rate as recent cycles, then Trump wins the election’

6. Missing votes. In Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 50,000 votes held on 47 USB cards are missing

7. Non-resident voters. Matt Braynard’s Voter Integrity Project estimates that 20,312 people who no longer met residency requirements cast ballots in Georgia. Biden’s margin is 12,670 votes

8. Serious ‘chain of custody’ breakdowns. Invalid residential addresses. Record numbers of dead people voting. Ballots in pristine condition without creases, that is, they had not been mailed in envelopes as required by law

9. Statistical anomalies. In Georgia, Biden overtook Trump with 89 percent of the votes counted. For the next 53 batches of votes counted, Biden led Trump by the same exact 50.05 to 49.95 percent margin in every single batch. It is particularly perplexing that all statistical anomalies and tabulation abnormalities were in Biden’s favor. Whether the cause was simple human error or nefarious activity, or a combination, clearly something peculiar happened.

Yet we’re led to believe that an overwhelming enthusiasm for Joe Biden – even more than that previously shown for Barack Obama – enabled him to win the presidency. Yeah, right.

(to be continued….)