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What will happen if Trump refuses to leave after losing the election
We’ll have descended into full banana republic status
An interesting revision to the history of the 2016 election has taken hold among Trump supporters. We’re all aware of his claim that he had the biggest crowds at his inauguration, or that he would have won had it not been for the millions of illegal aliens allegedly voting in the election. Like a claim printed in Trump’s favorite publication — the National Enquirer — that a woman gave birth to an alien baby, Trump’s hard-core supporters lap it up and accept the revision unquestioningly.
This latest claim first came to my attention a few days ago when someone responded to one of my posts. Trump, his supporters claim, never said prior to the election that he would not accept the election results if he lost. The absurdity of that claim is Stalinesque. We all watched the Presidential debate in which he clearly made that statement. But like so many things in our post-truth society, what Trump says publicly one minute he didn’t say the next.
This statement came to mind just the other day when Trump stated to Breitbart News that “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump — I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go…
