Blogger in Chief

Does he input the old-fashioned way? (Vice photo)

If you missed ex-President Trump's unique communicative style, you can now read his blog. The latest post:

Warmonger Liz Cheney, who has virtually no support left in the Great State of Wyoming, continues to unknowingly and foolishly say that there was no Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election when in fact, the evidence, including no Legislative approvals as demanded by the U.S. Constitution, shows the exact opposite.

Had Mike Pence referred the information on six states (only need two) back to State Legislatures, and had gutless and clueless MINORITY Leader Mitch McConnell (he blew two seats in Georgia that should have never been lost) fought to expose all of the corruption that was presented at the time, with more found since, we would have had a far different Presidential result, and our Country would not be turning into a socialist nightmare! Never give up!

Father and daughter in 2016 (AP News)

His blog doesn't allow comments, and the traffic is orders of magnitude less than his Twitter postings. Less traffic, however, doesn't mean he's been ignored. The WSJ editorial page responded to his attack on Liz Cheney:

The better part of political prudence would be for Ms. Cheney to ignore Mr. Trump. But Mr. Trump won’t ignore her. He issued four statements on Monday and three of the four were attacks on fellow Republicans, including one on Ms. Cheney. She may be ousted because she is daring to tell the truth to GOP voters—and at personal political risk...

Republicans will look foolish, or worse, to swing voters if they refight 2020 in 2022. They can truthfully say that Democrats used lawsuits to exploit the pandemic to change the election rules in some states. They can also say Democratic judges on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court let Democrats get away with it. Democrats did a better job of exploiting the pandemic election rules than did the GOP.

But there’s no evidence any of this was decisive, as Mr. Trump lost the popular vote in a rout and the Electoral College by a similar margin to what he won in 2016. Mr. Trump lost even as Republicans gained 12 seats in the House. The election was close, but not as close as others in American history.

We haven't even seen the text of the Biden Administration's tax and spending proposals, and we're already talking about the 2022 elections. Let's focus on this year; let's see the draft proposals, the responses from the public, and what happens in Congress.

Let's see whether President Biden's mental faculties continue to deteriorate---I hope he stays healthy--and whether that affects the political calculus of not only 2022 but 2021. Or maybe international events will become paramount, and President Biden's actions will affect whether his domestic legislation gets passed.

Meanwhile, the Democrats were right to complain about the weaknesses of election systems in 2016, and ex-President Trump is right to complain about them in 2020. But that election is over. Let's implement a Sarbanes-Oxley Act for elections to root out the potential for fraud.

We sometimes forget that one of the foundational principles of democracy is that the losers accept the result because they trust the process. That trust is near tatters, but it can be restored by demonstrating to everyone, clearly and transparently, that cheating can't turn an election.

Fixing these systems will restore trust in future elections, and maybe we'll begin trusting each other again.