Well, Maybe...

We are in more danger than we were even two or three years ago. https://t.co/j67sSnpdIs

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 13, 2021

Except, as I say, this is not a winning strategy. Maybe in the primaries it is; but not in the courtroom, and not at the ballot box. A shrinking number of people think all elections are unjust and rigged if they don't win. That's not an idea with wide appeal in a country with a 200 year tradition of majority rule (yes, I know the term "majority" is a fraught one; but it's the idea that matters here. And the fact is in every country the "majority" gets what it wants; or just accepts what it has. America doesn't have much tradition of "accepting what it has." We're not on the verge of turning into North Korea. We're not even on the verge of turning into commies; whatever that means.)

So if Gavin Newsome wins in California, will the courts overturn it?  Not likely.  Will the GOP rise up in righteous wrath and "decertify" the results?  Yeah, right.  More likely the GOP simply won't vote in large numbers, convinced their mail-in ballots (which have been sent to every registered voter in the state) are rigged, untrustworthy, or contain microchips to track them (I dunno; something like that.  Maybe they're examining them for bamboo traces).  And this is a grave danger how?  Reports from California are that they are set to meet or exceed the record voter turnout from 2020 (not even a year ago yet).  Is this a danger?  How?

At least the street corner sign people seem to care about your future. https://t.co/CaX5fxG2mE

— Sharky 🦈 (@FailShark) September 13, 2021

I’m not the most socially or emotionally adept person, but if I start explaining theories to strangers in public and they’re avoiding eye contact and looking like I’m nuts, my reaction is not “wow, there sure are a lot of propaganda victims, good thing I’m on the case.”

— ArrestFutureCriminalsHat (@Popehat) September 13, 2021

Yes, this is connected to that.  Pundits and poohbahs on Twitter wring their hands in despair over the influence of the crazies among us.  Meanwhile, on the street (remember the streets?  Where we keep things "real"?  Where we find the wisdom of the man-in-the-?  Where we take it because that's where the "people" are?  "Blab of the pavement" anybody?  Okay, I'm through.),  People on the street don't want to get too close to these nutcases, in case the insanity itself is contagious.  And speaking of contagious insanity:

Rep. Lauren Boebert declares that Christians must rise up and remove ungodly leaders from power and replace them with "righteous men and women of God" who realize that the government should be taking orders from the church. https://t.co/y0o5W1bZ1m pic.twitter.com/MDVT40AGqg

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 13, 2021

I might have worried about this if Jerry Falwell had said it, back when he was alive to say anything. Pat Robertson tried to be this crazy; he couldn't even get past a few GOP primaries. It's worth remembering Trump never said an even vaguely Christian thing in his life (as I recall during his first campaign he met with two pastors and had to ask if they were Christians; he truly didn't know, despite their titles and reason for meeting with him).  Sure, he had the white evangelicals on his side, but the most that ever did for him was dissuade states from mandating masks and shutting down public gatherings like church services (most churches I know did close; handfuls of crazy evangelicals didn't, mostly presiding in the end over superspreader events).  They didn't, in the end, put him back in office over the most Catholic President ever (JFK was Catholic in name only, and even then mostly on his mother's side).

So excuse me if I find Lauren Boebert not even up to Elmer Gantry standards, much less the second coming of Sister Sharon.  She says she's filed articles of impeachment.  I want to see if she stays around beyond her first term.  I suspect even her district is embarassed by her, and besides, CO, like every other state in the union, will be redistricting soon.  She may find her district is less congenial than it was.  For now, she's just a popinjay.