I think the slowness of the news organizations to make an official victory call for Biden is working out optimally. Trump's conspiracy spew isn't working because it's not getting high-level mainstream media buy-in as semi-legit, like, say, Benghazi did, or Hillary server. 1/

Something seems to be changing in those rarified precincts. (Fingers crossed.) Ask Kermit Roosevelt: it's not enough to have thugs in the streets; for the shah to fall it has to seem like the thugs represent some sort of mass uprising--and that takes media amplification. But 2/

in this coup attempt, the media isn't playing along. Usually reporting on the right is usually bad because actually reporting on what they actually do and say because wouldn't sound "fair" to "both sides," but change is afoot this week... /3

Where usually, prettify crazy absurdities (again: Benghazi; Hillary's server) to make them sound like real issues. So people don't really see how crazy so much of the right actually is. But now they're reporting that pretty straight... /4

and also, blessedly--a real breakthrough victory for media critics and activists--big mainstream media institutions are calling presidential lies lies, finally grasping the stakes for the nation, and also, not incidentally, themselves. /5

So, with the long count, the danger of insurgent violence and a legitimization crisis is actually waning. The longer this goes on, the more the thugs begin to appear like isolated nuts--like the "BEER BBQ FREEDOM" guy, instead of... /6

not the "this is what Middle America must actually be thinking in their coffee shops; we'd better report this as a real story," or at least give "both sides" on something that's "out there." FIN (except, you know, I could also be totally wrong, and this thing might blow up...)