Concession

2016/2020

In 2016 Donald Trump won the presidential election against Hillary Clinton and she did not concede the election.  You say, “Oh she did.  She made a statement.”  Sure.  Hillary said something like all the lies characteristic of the Clintons, what turned since into its own vocabulary word:  Clintonesque.  She lied, what some might call “parsing words.”

Hillary Clinton, even before she lost, cooked up with the rest of the establishment, but led by her, the Russia conspiracy against Trump that impeded his presidency.  She preyed on Trump’s inexperience in Washington, DC.  John Durham in his special counsel investigation of the Russia hoax came to the conclusion

that there was no basis to immediately launch a full-fledged investigation against Donald Trump; that the FBI failed to follow up on intelligence reports that Hillary Clinton had approved a scheme to manufacture the Russia hoax and that her campaign funded opposition research to supply to the FBI and media with the false narrative; and that FBI leaders willingly subverted FBI policy, quashed investigations into Clinton’s potential violations of the law, and more.

Disqualification and a Fake Issue

That wasn’t the only signification that Hillary Clinton and the establishment did not concede the election.  They treated his presidency as ineligible or disqualified and didn’t ever accept the results.  The unelected administrative state cooperated with the Democrat Party in dozens of different ways to defy the electoral victory of President Donald Trump.  As an example, James Comey, the head of the FBI under President Barack Obama, leaked sensitive information about President Donald Trump to the press that precipitated the appointment of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation.

Many arguing against Trump point to his unwillingness to concede.  I don’t hear anything about the other side not conceding.  Both Clinton and Trump may not have conceded either in word or action, but Clinton didn’t inhabit the White House in 2016 nor Trump in 2020.  It’s ultimately a fake issue.  According to my own assessment, Trump’s challenge of the 2020 election did not compare to the seriousness of what Clinton did in 2016 and following, helped along by President Obama spying on the Trump campaign.

My History

I have voted in all the presidential elections since 1980.  Living in Wisconsin during my Freshmen year in College, I voted for Ronald Reagan in 80 and the same in 84.  When I moved to California, I started voting there first for George H.W. Bush in 88, same in 92, Bob Dole in 96, George W. Bush in 2000, same in 2004, John McCain in 2008, Mitt Romney in 2012, Trump in 2016, and same in 2020.

This year I’ll vote Trump again in the state of Indiana in 2024.  It wasn’t until 1976 that I really started considering presidential elections with the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter election.  Even though I was alive for the 1968 and 1972 elections, I don’t remember them at all.  The first political event I remember was Watergate, seeing it in black and White on our old tube television set.  This will be my twelfth presidential election.

Every presidential election year from 1992 to 2020 I taught United States government in our high school.  Five days a week I came into government class and commented on the election until it occurred the first Tuesday in November.  I also taught jr. high history.  The United States history curriculum for jr. high also included some government.  The class read and answered questions about the United States Constitution.

Endorsement

Those for whom I voted president in the general election won six out of eleven times.  This year could become seven.  When Trump won in 2016, I wasn’t expecting it.  I didn’t think he would win in 2020.  Will he win this year?  For the first time, I think he will.  It’s hard to tell by the polls.  Maybe some of you reading know about the quiet Trump voters.  This affected the polls in 2016 and 2020.  The pollsters and the media got the Democrat vote percentage about right.  They underestimated Trump’s percentage both times.  Maybe you’ve seen this data.

Nothing gets more negative commentary on this blog than a positive mention of President Donald Trump.  Even if I intimate something positive about Trump without mentioning his name, I get a nasty comment.  What does this do for or to me?  Nothing.  Easily, Trump gets far more foul comments than all the other subjects combined.  Apparently these comments come from those who don’t like Trump’s meanness and nastiness.

The only hope for anything close to a Christian worldview is Trump.  I’m not going to tick off all the reasons.  They should be obvious.  If they’re not, I don’t think there is much I can write here today that will persuade you the reader, which you haven’t already heard, watched, or read.