Advice To Trump Supporters From One Who Also Lost His Presidential Bid

 

Some of you may recall that I ran a somewhat less than serious campaign to become President Of The United States. I did so on the basis that both candidates sucked and that I—or most anyone—would suck less than the candidates of the two major parties. Hence my campaign slogan, “I Suck Less”.

 While I truly believed it would have been hard to find a worse candidate than Trump or Biden, I WAS aware of a worse scenario than either one of them becoming president, and that was a contested election. A contested election would mean that the serious yet almost comical divide between two segments of society would grow far more serious and far less humorous.

 In elections, as in sports games, there are certain calls that can be argued about and may possibly shape and determine the outcome. But because we all enjoy the sport of football, we overlook the disputed calls because we know nothing is perfect and overall the games are being played out as they should. It would take a gross and obvious pattern of provable bad calls to call into question the outcome of any one game.

 Do I believe our elections are absolutely without flaw? Assuredly not. In fact, the entire system seems so stacked against the people having their say that I no longer place great importance in the act of voting. But to make assertions—assertions not solidly based in observable facts—that the Democrats rigged the election by adding extra votes is both irresponsible and counterproductive. It is irresponsible because it points out alleged cheating by Democrats while ignoring the well-documented fact that Republicans have been gaming elections for decades by purging voter rolls and gerrymandering districts so that the will of voters is not fairly expressed. If you don’t see hypocrisy in that, consider that Trump supporters were screaming to stop the counting in one state while screaming to allow the counting to continue in another. It is counterproductive because nothing good will come of it. America will not be made great again by undermining the very principles and institutions on which it was built in order to support one person, no matter how great you think he is.

 To Trump supporters, I say this: a Biden presidency is the greatest gift you could have been given. Joe Biden has been handed the mess created not only by four years of Trump but eight years of Obama. It is a foregone conclusion that his candidacy will not be pretty. The bill for the debt created under Reagan, Bush, Obama and especially Trump has been pushed to its furthest limits. Our economy is destined to crash regardless of who is in the Oval Office. Do you really want your guy taking the blame for it? Far better that he sit on the sidelines for the next four years and watch it all go wrong, so that he can come back for a second term in 2024. Sure, he won’t be a young man, but he won’t be appreciably older than Biden. Maybe he’ll have a better grip on his faculties than Biden currently does, and even if he doesn’t, we’ve already established that that is no longer a barrier to electability.

 The job of conservatives right now is not to support your candidate but to lead him in the direction he needs to go, which is out of the White House. This won’t be easy, because Donald Trump is not one to admit when he is wrong or that he lost. In fact, I can’t think of a single instance when he’s done so, can you? Nevertheless, you’re going to have to be the adults because our politicians never will. It’s just the times we’re living in.

You might admire Trump’s tenacity in never admitting defeat, but I guarantee you that even his most ardent supporters wouldn’t want to play a board game with him.

 So what you need to do is meet him at the White House and have a big procession with giant flags flying from your pickup trucks and lead him out of the presidency like it’s a parade in his honor. Because when Biden fails utterly at cleaning up the mess Trump had no small part in making, you give Donald Trump the opportunity to swoop back onto the scene and say “See, I told you so.”

 This is your best opportunity, MAGA. Seize it before Trump makes things uglier than they need to be. America is already great, your Trump signs say so. Surely it’s great enough to endure four years of a Democratic President moderated by a Republican Senate and a conservative Supreme Court. Just, for the love of God, don’t blame Russia for your loss.