Confronted with the past remarks of Clinton and Abrams, large portions of lefty twitter have started insisted that Trump's major violation is the lawsuit--which is the most normal, acceptable thing he is doing. It's his extrajudicial activities that are unprecedented and horrific

The problem is not that Trump is going to court. The problem is that he is stating, as a fact, that a vast electoral fraud occurred in order to avoid admitting he lost the election by the rules then in place for holding the election.

(And also that this vast electoral fraud did not occur, or if we want to go all "You can't prove a negative", that he has offered no good evidence it did.)

The duty to concede is separate from the structure of the system, in a way too few people seem to be appreciating.

It was a serious, undemocratic structural flaw in the system that women could not vote in the 1900 election. William McKinley was nonetheless the duly elected, legitimate president of the United States. This sounds like a small thing; it is everything.