C) The media was good calling out all the really bad things Trump did.

D) The media was bad calling out any positive thing Trump said or did and painted him evil.

E) Journalists in 2020 & 2016 unethically became activists misreporting a big blue wave or Hilary’s inevitable win.

F) Trump saw that there is actually an obvious conspiracy against him which is true. And inferred that it extends to the general election.

G) Trump simply doesn’t have the goods on this allegedly stolen election. He is in search mode. It’s more of a gut thing.

H) The left says “If you don’t have the goods, then it was completely free, fair and obviously so you sore loser.”

I) The right says “You guys aren’t fair about anything. Your unbiased commentary is a 24/7 open conspiracy to misrepresent the world.

Now comes the weird part.

It should be UNTHINKABLE to attempt to reverse an election on a gut feeling the way he is doing it...even if the election were stolen.

You have to prove things. He didn’t do the work. He doesn’t seem to have the goods. But he saw 4 years of open manipulation of the news. Ergo..

He’s now in a state where he’s convinced that his feeling that he won together with the obvious total abdication of journalism’s responsibility to eschew activism is enough to overturn the results.

Which is nuts. It’s like “feeling” that someone is guilty & expecting conviction.

Yes media is guilty of political agitation while enjoying the protection of neutral journalists. Yes they have conspired against him at every turn. But IT’S NOT FUNGIBLE. The anti-Trump media conspiracy is not a vote counting conspiracy. He can’t cash in one to win the other.

He doesn’t understand. He’s free to become a private citizen and spend his remaining days looking for evidence of a conspiracy to steal the election. But he’s not free to say “Our rallies were huge!” While trying to stay in office. Results are presumed fair until proven otherwise

So while I agree with him that trust in our institutions is at rock bottom for good reasons, he’s WAY out of line. I don’t think Biden won fair & square after the anti Gabbard/Yang BS. But i treat the general as a free and fair election in the absence of credible legal evidence.

Which is to say this: we have a lot of unethical media people dancing and celebrating Trump’s loss. And it remains *possible* that we will learn something nefarious happened. But pretending now that a media conspiracy is an electoral conspiracy w/o proof is insane & outrageous.

I’m happier to see him go than I am sad to see Biden arrive. But he isn’t wrong that there was a media/institutional conspiracy. He’s wrong elsewhere: he doesn’t have the goods on electoral fraud. But the number of us who see the former conspiracy but not the latter is *tiny*.

For some reason, almost everyone I know either see two conspiracies against Trump or zero. I see only one conspiracy against him to date and it’s not fungible. His behavior is outrageous but those pointing it out as unethical have been compromised themselves by hatred. That’s it.