War Drums Along the Potomac

 

The revelations from Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell may not be enough to prompt the Supreme Court or Congress to overturn the election. But they are already enough to convince just about everyone on the right that the election results are not legitimate.

The great strength of democracy is that, having voted, everyone feels they have a stake in the government, and this prompts most of us to comply with the laws and the rules. This is suddenly no longer so in the USA.

We now have the worst possible scenario. If Biden is allowed to take office, the right will not accept it, Even commentators who scoffed at it until a few weeks ago, are now talking revolution, martial law, or civil war. If Trump is left in office, the left will erupt in new violence. And there will be demands from his supporters for a clampdown. These people, after all, have been shown now to be treasonous.

We have been dumb lucky so far that only the left has been trying to impose their will by violence. It is going to get far messier if now there are two sides.