August 2, 2021

It's AUGUST 2021! That Means But One Thing

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For those happy few living under a rock for the past few months, August, 2021 is the month when all the good Trumpinistas think the defeated, twice impeached former president will, in fact, be reinstated in the Oval Office. Never mind that there's no constitutional provision for such a reinstatement. But let's face it, the Trumper/QAnon folks don't really dwell in the land of facts, do they? Anyway, when did this story begin? Here:

A point confirmed by Charles Cooke of the National Review:

Two days ago, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman reported that Donald Trump “has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August.” In response, many figures on the right inserted their fingers into their ears and started screaming about fake news.

Instead, they should have listened — because Haberman’s reporting was correct. I can attest, from speaking to an array of different sources, that Donald Trump does indeed believe quite genuinely that he — along with former senators David Perdue and Martha McSally — will be “reinstated” to office this summer after “audits” of the 2020 elections in Arizona, Georgia, and a handful of other states have been completed. I can attest, too, that Trump is trying hard to recruit journalists, politicians, and other influential figures to promulgate this belief — not as a fundraising tool or an infantile bit of trolling or a trial balloon, but as a fact.

A paragraph or so later, Cooke writes:

The scale of Trump’s delusion is quite startling. This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter. It is a rejection of reality, a rejection of law, and, ultimately, a rejection of the entire system of American government. There is no Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. Hell, there is nothing even approximating a Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. The election has been certified, Joe Biden is the president, and, until 2024, that is all there is to it.

Again, this is The National Review.

Despite that ruling from Wm F Buckley's magazine, this is going on in the GOP: 

A full 29 percent of Republicans think Donald Trump has a real shot at being “reinstated” as president by the end of 2021, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll. A full 17 percent of GOP respondents said it’s “very likely” that Trump, who lost the electoral college to Joe Biden by a 306-232 margin, will once again be president. Another 12 percent said it’s “somewhat likely” that Trump will get back in the oval office this year.

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They got it all worked out, don't they? So all we can do is wait. Wait until the end of August. August, when yet another crazie right wing conspiracy theory (wasn't this supposed to happen in March?) will fade away like Terrence Mann into that Iowa cornfield.

30 days until September 1.

We'll see.

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