Let's talk about...the 2020 Election

By Gabriel Green

This is the first of our “Designed to Divide” topics, which are the sort of things that most Americans have firmly entrenched beliefs about. Folks aren’t usually looking to be persuaded on these topics. I encourage you to ignore them if you’re a single-issue voter on the matter, because I probably won’t make you happy regardless of where you stand. The reality is, these topics are the primary tool of the propaganda industry to keep us divided; but, since folks care about them, they should probably be addressed.

In this piece I tackle one of the most controversial topics in American Politics, the 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

I don’t hold back on either the Reds or the Blues, so if you’re looking for something that confirms your biases, please don’t read anymore.

Dear Reader,

This post is likely not going to sit super comfortably with you. I use sarcasm sprinkled with facts, and good ol’ fashioned logic that conforms to nobody’s narrative. I also use some “incendiary” language, as is my right as an American; all of us are heirs to Patrick Henry.

Hindsight is [for] 2020.

Disclaimer

Feel free not to read, but if you do, please read through the whole thing before responding.

You can tweet me (@DinoWyo) or email me directly (dinowyo@gmail.com) or submit any sort of comment you’d like at the bottom of the page. Just read the whole thing first.

I mostly avoid sources and whatnot because I don’t want the conservative/liberal/whatever bias of a source to become the focus for the reader, but rather for them to focus on the logic of what I’m saying. It's not that there isn't evidence. Rather, on these sorts of topics, folks aren't very open to evidence that doesn't confirm their viewpoint. So, my only shot at being persuasive is with logic.

The one source I do use is from a ~nonpartisan~ red-leaning group I used to interact with. I want to be clear that their bias is towards proving the election was stolen. I encourage everyone to click on the "WILL" link below. It's actually pretty decent.

Tickin’ Everyone Off

If you’re a typical Wyomingite, there’s a good chance you believe the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump. If you’re a Republican that’s doubly likely.

If you’re a Democrat (and therefore inherently non-typical in Wyoming), you likely believe that 2020 was proof that national Democrat values were recently popular.

Both of these beliefs are wrong.

Trump Did Not Win in 2020

We Americans are actually pretty good at elections — as groups like the Heritage Foundation used to point out, especially after 2016, up until donors pressured them following 2020 — and it’s something we should have taken pride in.

First, I must dispel the myth that Trump won in 2020, or that any of the very minimal voting fraud that has been proven would have changed the results of the election.

I offer three, simple, logic-based reasons to accept this reality.

Reason One: William Barr

William Barr, attorney general under President Trump in his first term, was the “bootlicker” par excellence.

Nobody enjoyed proving his loyalty to President Trump more than William Barr. He could even give the current term’s sycophants a run for their money…

But, despite having the ENTIRE power of the United States legal system, and a burning desire to use it to keep his boss in office, William Barr couldn’t do it.

Instead — after using every legal avenue available, and all of the investigatory power of our entire over-sized federal law enforcement apparatus — the Attorney General of these United States had to break it to his personal hero that he had in fact lost the 2020 election.

It was a nailbiter, no doubt. But, Trump lost.

Reason Two: The Entire Republican Support Apparatus

Without getting all the way into it, I have been in calls and meetings with the people whose job it was to prove that Attorney General Barr failed. I know a lot about how they prosecuted the 2020 myth and paved the way for the Red Team dominance of 2024.

Former state AGs, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), the Republican Party, several ~non-partisan~ nonprofits, and a slew of private citizen attorneys made it their life’s mission to prove that the election was stolen.

They filed lawsuits. They conducted studies. They even put the bat-signal out to the public looking for evidence.

And, basically every single claim they tried to prove turned out to be false.

Later, they tried to claim that the problem was optics and that they'd cast too-wide a net, giving the legal system a bed-of-nails to lay on and reject their claims. This is both laughable and deeply insulting to the nations’ judges that groups like the Federalist Society have worked so hard to ensure are plenty conservative.

The reality/myth of an ideologically biased judiciary is its own topic, but in short what we have is not so much a “conservative” or “liberal” judiciary as a “partisan” judiciary.

We have a judiciary that LOVES to help its own team out.

Both sides actively “shop” for judges they think will help the most. And the Red Partisans trying the election fraud cases did the same thing, despite increasing propaganda claiming that Republican judges who dismissed these cases (many of whom were appointed by Trump himself) were secret liberals.

These weren’t stupid lawyers. These were seasoned political animals, with extensive experience practicing law. And they knew what they were doing when they tried case after case before biased judges who also desperately wanted to help prove that their guy won.

They could not.

Best Proof of Fraud There Is

Before getting into reason three, I’d like to highlight some work from a group named the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL). These folks were very incentivized to find proof of voter fraud, and, they did find some evidence of ~improper~ voting.

I cannot stress enough that THIS is the best thing the Red team has in terms of evidence. And their work has been highly informative in many of the new “Election Integrity” reforms that Republicans have advocated for.

Personally, I think some of their suggestions make pretty fine sense. Others are pretty clearly biased towards stopping likely Democrat voters like the young, renters, and the working poor. I’m personally most in favor of things that tighten security around voting while increasing accessibility. I dislike things that limit citizen access to ballots. #BallotOrBullet

Yet again, I find myself saying “yes, and” rather than “either/or” like our partisans want.

For instance, in Arizona they had drop boxes that were guarded by both the police and private militias (kind of freaky and intimidating, but as a 2nd Amendment guy I approve of the concept). And it was only the boxes that weren’t guarded that were targeted by attacks; such as setting them on fire.

Clearly the boxes should be protected, but that doesn’t mean they should be banned.

WILL makes this case very well for a “nonpartisan” (but blatantly Red-biased) nonprofit.

WILL explains, clearly, that it’s important to deal with the widespread belief of Republicans and some Independents that the 2020 election was stolen. Even if you don’t believe that the 2020 election was stolen, it’s frankly important to investigate the results if anyone believes it was; even more so if a sizable portion of the country does.

And, with ample funding and lots of hard work, what they found was:

• It is almost certain that in Wisconsin’s 2020 Election the number of votes that did not comply with existing legal requirements exceeded Joe Biden’s margin of victory.

• It is still not possible to infer fraud solely from these unlawfully cast votes or failure to maintain voter rolls.

• Local practices were not uniform and, in some cases, may not have followed the law.

• Voter Rolls were not properly maintained.

• The 2020 election results were not anomalous.

• We found that private funding of election operations had a partisan bias and impact.

• A targeted review of a sampling of ballots found few issues.

  
  

Think of their conclusions like this: The letter of the law was not always followed, but the votes of the majority of people were clearly for Joe Biden over Donald Trump; so, the law needs to be better enforced, and the law also needs to be a lot clearer in the first place to make that enforcement simpler.

That’s good stuff right there. It’s a way to move forward in securing elections, and a way to stop dangerous partisan rhetoric that tells people their votes were stolen. Because, if you believe they discounted your ballot, you need to give someone the bullet…

Put Simply: We the People need to make it easy to vote AND hard to cheat.

Right now, both sides of the partisan divide seem intent on only one half of the solution. Democrats want it to be easy for people to vote (which is good) and Republicans want it to be hard to cheat (which is good). Nobody pitches reforms that do both.

Why won’t they do both?

Because then they couldn’t raise so much money off the whole darn issue…

Reason Three: Democrats Got CLOBBERED in 2020 (then ’22, then ’24)

There were so many clearly partisan entities who wanted desperately to prove Trump won. They couldn’t.

This leads to two possible conclusions for those who still believe the election was stolen.

Conspiracy of the Highest Order

First is the disturbing thought that America is so deeply controlled by a grand conspiracy as to prevent his victory.

But, this is giving our incompetent leaders a LOT more credit than they deserve, and probably needs to be addressed more in its own piece somewhere else.

It also fails to account for how he’d then go on to win again in 2024…wouldn’t this oh-so-powerful cabal have just stopped him again?

I’ll offer a suggestion. Watch the 9/11 conspiracy episode of South Park. It kind of nails the absurdity of this line of thought. I’ll admit personally that my dad is a 9/11 truther, and I am sympathetic to the conspiratorial mindset. Don’t even get me started on JFK. It’s just that this particular theory of a conspiracy against Donald Trump really lacks legs…

Democrats Are Secretly Geniuses?

Second, is the almost-more-disturbing idea that the Democrats are THAT good at cheating.

Like, seriously, they’d have to be really good to dodge the entire investigatory apparatus of the United States AND of the nonprofit network & private cadre of folks working round-the-clock to prove that they cheated.

Considering that we all seem to publicly agree – especially here in Wyoming – that the typical Democrat isn’t smart enough to pour pee out of a boot with instructions written on the heel…I find this dubious.

Redistricting

But, if we take it seriously, we see how quickly the idea falls apart. And the results in the 2020 election everywhere down ballot below the presidency show this to be the case.

See, 2020 was a crucial election, not so much because of the whole Sleepy Joe vs Donny Darko thing, but rather because it was a redistricting election.

Redistricting controls basically everything about how our elections actually unfold. Redistricting is NOTORIOUSLY biased by whomever controls the legislature.

There are “red” districts, “blue” districts, and “competitive” districts which typically lean a certain direction. The more one party controls a state the more of their districts you’ll see, compared to competitive districts that are often only really seen in deeply divided states (like the swing states).

Gerrymandering is nothing new, but the partisans have gotten really good at it so they focus a lot of energy on winning elections before redistricting efforts. Like the 2020 elections.

And, in 2020, Democrats got absolutely clobbered in almost every competitive race besides the presidential election. Especially in Swing States.

Update: Democrats are Still Stupid

As it turns out, the Democrats just aren't that clever.

If they were smart enough to win at the top of the ballot by cheating, why wouldn’t they also cheat down ballot?

Their blue partisans were aware of the redistricting thing and talked about it a lot. But they didn’t win pretty much anywhere but the White House in 2020.

The 2022 midterms and the 2024 elections just continued to increase Republican gains.

Even the idea of a constant “abortion referendum” (which does typically work in the Blue’s favor) didn’t really help them because ballot measures were the main way folks wanted to protect abortion access; not by voting for blue candidates who had nothing else to offer.

Back in 2020, it’s not so much that the American people chose Joe Biden as they rejected Donald Trump. Much like the fatigue many of his voters are feeling already in this term, the people were exhausted by his erratic behavior.

A few years removed from it and reminded of the “slow death” that the establishment folks like Biden offered (to say nothing of his diminished capacities), folks were just willing to hop back on the Trump Train in 2024.

“Anything is better than wasting away,” after all.

Dear Democrat Readers

To any Democrat readers, I'm not saying you're stupid. Rather, your national leaders are.

Y'all voted for someone other than the candidate your leaders picked for two elections in a row. Y'all didn't even get to vote this time around...talk about "democratic."

I offer a further insight to demonstrate this stupidity...

In 2020 ANYONE could have beaten Trump. Your leaders actually chose one of the worst possible options by going with Mr. Establishment himself in Sleepy Joe.

There's no denying it was a choice too. While the Super Tuesday Conspiracy wasn't quite so egregious as Super Delegates, it was still pretty blatant. And, he was almost as bad a choice as Hillary, just with fewer (literal) skeletons in the closet. That's why he barely won.

The promise most of us thought y'all were making when you put him on the ballot was something like, “we don’t really have a plan, but if you kick Donald out, we’ll use Joe as a placeholder, and then we'll come back in 2-4 years with a real option.”

As a personal note, I think that if Joe Biden had committed to being a one-term president focused on uniting us rather than immediately running for a second term, he could have been one of the best ever. Imagine a president who spent their time governing, not running for another term (which, if you’re paying attention, is still not what we have)...

Instead, once he got in office, whatever Blinded Blue sycophants you had around poor Mr. Biden immediately convinced him to give up on unity and start running for 2024. His whole presidency was a calculated attempt to hide successes that would alienate his base (like oil production) and to highlight failures of the Red team (like shutdowns), rather than an earnest attempt to heal the partisan divides.

And, as we all know, that "anointed for '24" attitude meant y’all didn’t primary him, and then didn’t even have a real convention to replace him. Running it back with Sleepy Joe, then putting Kamala Harris in as his proxy, didn't fulfill the promise we thought you'd made.

So, the people went “back to the pile” (to borrow another South Park analogy).

A Dangerous Myth of “What-About-Ism”

As a final tidbit, I will share a dangerous conclusion I heard from a well-regarded pollster. It’s a conclusion which I know has infiltrated the Red Team propaganda space, because I hear it more and more.

He argued that “Democrats thought the 2016 election was stolen.” And that somehow this “what about the Democrats?” logic justified the post-2020 Republican behavior.

I’d like to dispel this, with a couple quick points.

First, literally no major member of the Democrat party, nor Shill-ary Clinton herself, has claimed the election was stolen.

I know you want to bring up the clip that Fox News plays a lot, but they literally trim it to remove the part where she says the results were legitimate…

Second, no major legal action was taken by the Democrats against the results in 2016. That’s distinct from the Reds in 2020.

Seriously, my email at work was FILLED with “stolen election” stuff up until the day before 2024’s vote, and then the next day suddenly it was filled with stuff about how well-run 2024 was.

The blues never did that.

What the Democrats Actually Did/Said

Following the election in 2016, our entire intelligence apparatus warned us that foreign actors had worked diligently to influence the election. These actors didn’t so much care who won.

They just made sure that whoever won, a sizeable portion of Americans would hate them.

Trump won in 2016, fair and square, with no intentional assistance by foreign actors. Russia didn’t want Trump, China didn’t want Trump, Iran didn’t want Trump, and North Korea did not want Trump. They ALL just wanted American division.

I’m the first to admit that by 2020 and 2024, some of these countries actually did want Trump, but that’s not the claim the Reds are disputing, or what Democrats were clamoring about during Trump’s first term.

And, seriously, why wouldn’t the KGB Kingpin want his buddy back in power? I would too.

Rather, what the Democrats claimed in 2016 was something that I would have figured conservatives would support wholeheartedly…

Democrats said, "We need to SECURE our elections from foreign threats."

This was a chance for bipartisan leadership by President Trump, and his party’s control over the Congress. Republicans could have done a lot right then to ensure election integrity...

But, because President Trump is indisputably incapable of taking criticism (or even what he interprets as criticism), he thought that they were questioning his victory. And he wielded his bully pulpit to make sure every other Republican thought the same thing; or at least paid lip service to it with constituents.

The scary part?

WE STILL HAVEN’T SECURED OUR ELECTIONS FROM FOREIGN THREATS!!!

Seriously, a country interfering with our elections is an act of war against our Republic.

But...we've just watched it happen, repeatedly, for multiple elections in a row?!?!

Bunch-a cucks in charge here...

Jan 6th - Focusing on the Wrong Villain

And, we have political leaders who were briefed repeatedly that the things they were telling the public after the 2020 election were lies. They didn’t care. They just wanted to stay in power, or at the very least make money off the peoples’ outrage.

To all the Democrats condemning the January 6th folks, think about their perspective.

Their trusted officials KEEP telling them lies

The same officials who bemoaned mail-in voting's security while gutting the post office of its funds to help...

So, the people logically believe that their vote was stolen/ignored. Of course they’re going to protest, and of course they’re going to try to overturn the “false” results! Stop getting mad at the protesters...

Instead, do something to make it illegal to knowingly spread lies when your own intelligence agencies tell you that’s what you’re doing. It’s one thing to voice an opinion, or ask a controversial question. It’s another to have multiple briefings tell you something is false, and to then say it anyways to a public that trusts you.

Look at the Dominion lawsuit. We have TEXT EVIDENCE that the Fox News folks knew they were telling lies. But, because we let them settle with Dominion — don’t get me started on those crooks taking the money instead of seeking justice — we didn’t set an important precedent for our media, or for our elected officials, about knowingly lying to the people.

In Conclusion...Tell Me I'm Wrong

Between 2016 and 2020, both parties missed ample opportunities to pursue meaningful reforms that would protect us from all enemies, foreign and domestic. As far as I’m concerned — while one of them is more dangerous in the short-term — both parties are guilty of abandoning their oaths of office.

Both parties are being led by traitors. Let’s change that!

Sincerely,

Gabriel Green | Proud Anti-Partisan DINO

Thanks for reading the whole thing. Now you can tell me how wrong I am!

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Mistake Acknowledgement: in a first draft I mistakenly wrote "Anthony Barr," not "William Barr." Anthony Barr is a linebacker, apologies for the mix up.