Source: Wall Street Journal (screenshot)
"If Mr. Biden has 270 Electoral College votes at the end of
the counting and litigation, President Trump will have a decision to make. We
hope in that event he would concede gracefully." WSJ Editorial Board
Murdoch's Wall Street Journal , one of the Predator in Chief's strongest
supporters, shamelessly distances itself from him in the wake of a Biden
victory. The journal and its editors are well aware that Trump is incapable of
being graceful. To an even casual observer, Trump has shown he is a thoroughly
degenerate human being incapable of showing compassion or feeling for others;
he knows what "dignity" means and rejects it.
The Marx that these
forces love to demonize wrote of the state or government being the
"executive committee" of the capitalist class, overseeing the
interests of the class as a whole. Its institutions are sacred; its political
system the only form of governance that works. Trump has threatened that since
he warned during the debate with Hillary Clinton when he said he might not
accept the results of an election. The US ruling class let out a collective
gasp at this possibility.
It is the system, the phony democracy of billionaires
and their so-called free market that the Wall Street Journal is defending. Now,
as it seems the "people" have spoken, that other party of the ruling
elite will have to do. Its figurehead is a long time corporate shill who is a
safe defender of the faith in the long run. The ungraceful, racist and
misogynist Trump has been good for them and made some gains that likely will
not be reversed; a platform for the future struggles.
Biden has made it clear,
he governs for all Americans, the homeless and Warren Buffet. On China he has stressed that the US worker will have to be made more competitive and we know
who pays that price.
Richard Mellor
Editor Facts For Working People
Wall Street Journal Editorial
The Presidential Endgame
Trump has the right to fight in court, but he needs evidence to prove voter fraud.
By the Editorial Board Nov. 6, 2020 6:44 pm ET
Perhaps it was inevitable that Donald Trump’s re-election campaign would end as his Presidency began: with the President claiming victory and his frenzied antagonists denouncing him as a would-be fascist. The reality is that the U.S. can and probably will have a normal election outcome regardless of the shouting between now and then.
Mr. Biden is leading in
enough states to win the Presidency, and if those votes survive recounts and
legal challenges, he will be the next President. But whoever wins needs the
other to concede to be able to govern. The result Americans on both political
sides should want is one that most people think was decided fairly.
Mr. Trump has every right
to demand recounts if state votes are close, and to go to the courts for relief
if there is evidence of fraud. Joe Biden’s lawyers are also in court, and they
were for weeks before the election trying to ease mail-in ballot rules. Mr.
Biden should also want the recounts and legal process to play out for the sake
of his call to heal political rancor.As for fraud, the Trump campaign will have
to prove it to prevail in court. It won’t be enough to charge that Philadelphia
is historically corrupt, though it is, or that state election officials are
partisan. The Georgia secretary of state is a Republican, by the way, contrary
to Mr. Trump’s remarks Thursday night. The vote counting in Arizona and
Georgia
has seemed professional and transparent.
The same can’t be said of
Philadelphia, where the Trump campaign had to go to court so its poll-watchers
could observe vote counting. Incredibly, Democratic lawyers opposed that Trump
request. This is exactly the wrong way for Democrats to behave, feeding GOP
suspicions. The vote-counting standard should be transparency for both sides to
ensure public confidence.
The Democratic Pennsylvania
Supreme Court also contributed to the mistrust by rewriting state election law
to let mailed ballots be counted until Nov. 6. We warned multiple times that
this mess could happen, and the U.S. Supreme Court could have helped by
intervening. Chief Justice John Roberts refused.
But it’s also important to
note that Pat Toomey, the GOP Senator from the Keystone State, says he has seen
no evidence of fraud in his state’s counting. We’ve also seen no concrete
evidence. The delivery of a batch of votes all for Mr. Biden at one time can be
explained by the practice of some jurisdictions to divide and report the votes
of each candidate at different times.
The Trump campaign has made
a substantive claim that thousands of votes in Nevada failed to meet the
state’s residency requirement. That ought to be provable one way or another. If
the campaign has other evidence, bring it on and test it in court.
The suspicions of Trump
supporters about all this are fed by the behavior of his opponents over the
last four years. Democrats still spread the voter suppression myth about Stacey
Abrams’s defeat in Georgia in 2018. Democrats never accepted Mr. Trump’s
victory in 2016, and Hillary Clinton still prattles on that the Russians did
it.
So do the media partisans
who promoted the Steele dossier and served as an echo chamber for the Russia
collusion farce. The FBI’s abuses in 2016 were a genuine scandal that the media
would have called out had it been aimed at a Democrat. Instead they treated
Rep. Adam Schiff’s lies as gospel. And then New
York Times sages puzzle in public about why 70 million
Americans again voted for Donald Trump? Look in the mirror, folks.
If Mr.
Biden has 270 Electoral College votes at the end of the counting and
litigation, President Trump will have a decision to make. We hope in that event
he would concede gracefully. He has accomplished a great deal since descending
on that Trump Tower escalator in 2015, including his historic first victory and
a strong re-election performance when he was supposed to lose in a rout. We’d
hate to see that legacy ruined by a refusal to accept the normal transfer of
power.
Mr. Trump can rightly say
that he helped the GOP save its Senate majority, gain seats in the House, and
save the country from a radical progressive agenda. The election results show
he has also broadened the GOP appeal to minorities and across middle-class
America. His policies broadened prosperity to a forgotten group of Americans,
and his willingness to buck conventional wisdom led to a diplomatic
breakthrough in the Middle East. His judicial appointments have reshaped the
federal courts and will echo through the law for years.
This is a considerable
achievement, and it may look even better once Mr. Biden attempts to govern with
an angry, impatient left. But Mr. Trump’s legacy will be diminished greatly if
his final act is a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat. Republican officials
will turn away, and eventually so will the American public that wants to see
the election resolved.
Mr. Trump hates to lose, and no doubt he will fight to the end. But if defeat comes, he will serve himself and his country best by honoring America’s democratic traditions and leaving office with dignity.
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