Tuesday, July 14, 2026

“Remember That In The Midterms

And precisely how does he do that? Step by step, please. 

Show your work.
Me on @MSNOWNews talking about @realDonaldTrump 's continued push to try to delegitimize the 2020 election:

"This is actually exhibit number 55,299 of Trump's fundamental mental unfitness and moral unfitness to be president. If he doesn't believe this, and he's just saying this to be manipulative, that's psychopathic. If he actually believes any of this, he's psychotic. He may well be both. It's just classic Donald Trump."
Well, that’s certainly true.
Anyway, here's what I said:

“Conway said, Trump is engaged in ‘an attempt to undermine faith in elections generally in advance of an election that he is likely to lose one or both houses of Congress ... I mean, this is really, he is just looking in the mirror. He is just talking to himself.’

“This whole situation, Conway continued, ‘is actually exhibit number 55,299 of Trump's fundamental mental unfitness and moral unfitness to be president ... if he doesn't believe this and he's just saying this to be manipulative, that's psychopathic. If he actually believes any of this, he's psychotic. He may well be both.’

“Trump, Conway added, is engaged in his ‘classic’ pattern of behavior and ‘lying, lying, lying without regard to the facts, making new things up, even if they don't make any sense, and even if they don't connect up to things in the real world.’

“Conway added that, for the sake of argument, if you truly entertain Trump's ideas ‘is he saying that the one election where he was president was the one that he lost because there was election interference, and he didn't know that in 2020’ despite having control of all the election apparatus—meanwhile, "the only two good elections we had were 2016 and 2024’ [when Democrats were in charge] ….

“‘That's nonsense,’ Conway said.”
It's the charge of “undermining faith in elections” that I don’t understand.

What percentage of the electorate actually votes? It’s lower in the midterms than it is in Presidential years. It’s always been low. Participation in democracy has never been a hallmark of American democracy. Is that a sign of “undermined faith in elections”?

I’m pretty sure Trump winning the presidency undermined the trust of a lot of people in the electoral process. Maybe not in “elections,” but certainly in the people who voted; both in 2016 and in 2024. Is this where I should mention the common thread of those two elections? Both times, Trump’s opponent was a woman. Does that undermine faith in elections? It certainly damages one’s trust in the electorate. We’re supposed to be better than that. We elected Obama, after all. But we’ve been presented with two women candidates since then, and we’ve rejected them both. Kind of hard not to draw a conclusion from that: better Trump, than a woman.

But “faith in elections” is the key? And Trump undermines it by, what? Complaining about every election that doesn’t go his way? He’s still bitching about the 2020 election, and now he’s expected to declare the election of two democratic Senators illegitimate because…?  Well, Ossoff was elected in 2020, but Warnock doesn’t stand for reelection this year, so how does that even work?  Warnock won a special election in 2021, and then was elected in 2022, so… how does this work, again? The interference continued until 2022, but it stopped in 2024?

As Conway said, Trump was President in 2020. His government was charged with making sure the elections were free of foreign interference. Apparently they were in 2016, and 2024, when Trump was not the head of government. But not in 2020? And Trump only settled this now? Six years later? With evidence he probably won’t show us? Or probably won’t make any sense.

How does this work, again?

And it’s always about cheating that affects Trump? Unless he gets his way, the elections are illegitimate? If that’s the argument that undermines your “faith in elections,” then I’m guessing you never vote in the first place. And the country’s gotten by pretty well so far without you voting. Or caring about elections.

Maybe the idea is just a way of trying to explain Trump and his obsessions. But Trump is simply trying to salve his narcissistic ego. He can’t lose, and he can’t be wrong. He’s not undermining trust in anything except his presidency; what he says, and what he does.

And ultimately, for a politician, for an office holder, what does this (literally) have to do with the price of eggs? Or gasoline? Or inflation?
YINGST: Shipping data trackers indicate that just 10 vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Less than 10% of what normally goes through this critical waterway. When you say the strait is open, what do you mean?

TRUMP: It's open if people want to go through it. It’s open now.
All Trump is doing is undermining trust in his presidency. Which is why we have a Congress; and why it’s Article I of the Constitution.

“Remember that in the midterms.”
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