This morning I woke up early, long before sunrise. After morning prayers, while making coffee and looking out the kitchen window into the dark, I had a realization about the way the election is playing out, after thinking about Wictor's comments about what Donald Trump is doing.
Wictor spoke of the "mother of all tiger traps" that Donald Trump laid for his opponents. It's something I realized he would do right after the 2018 election, when the Democrats used shady ballot harvesting to flip those House seats in California, and possibly the Arizona Senate race.
"They let the Democrats cheat," I told people at the time. "They did it so they watch them, and learn exactly what they were doing. Next time they will be waiting."
That's pretty much what Wictor now says too. I haven't changed my mind about it at all. In fact I'm more confident than ever that this is what happened. Donald Trump is now in no hurry to force the evidence into the public. He is out golfing. He knows he can take his time, at least during the windows of the still-unfolding election that lie ahead.
But the idea that we're going to get a big revelation of the fraud in public, like Wictor said, is something different. As I stared out the window into the dark, it hit me that we might not get such a thing after all. It is simply not Donald Trump's style to do that.
Over and over for the last four years, Trump supporters have found themselves wishing Donald Trump would just "release the goods" and prove the nation what has been going on. This has been frustrating for many of us. I know of at least one Trump supporter, a close friend of mine, who turned against Trump in derangement of this very thing, and sunk into fringe conspiracies.
Yet Trump has done everything he said he would do, and more. For him, action and results are important, not what the public believes is happening, unless that is necessary to get the results he needs. Many things lie ahead, that may be revealed.
But if he can get re-elected without publicly revealing the full scope of fraud of which they no doubt have concrete proof, then it is likely we will not get to see the evidence as much as we hoped, I thought. We'll just him back in the Oval Office, with the national media screeching that it was unfair.
Right on schedule, I found out that overnight Wictor released another video. It raises exactly the same point that I was mulling. He brings into question his own previous conclusion that there will be a big public reveal of the fraud evidence. One of his colleagues on his podcast suggested to him it would not be so.
Wictor reasoned that such a reveal would destroy the Democratic Party. To annihilate one of the two major parties, one that represents half the nation, even as bad as it is, might not be the wisest course of action. It would put us into uncharted waters as a nation.
The Democratic Party is already in chaos. They are pointing fingers at each other in anger of the losses in the House, and the fact that it wasn't a landslide. They can't seem to savor any of this "victory." Even the people dancing in the street probably know in their heart Trump is not going away. They want enjoy a moment of victory and humiliation of their opponents, which has been so rare for them, even if it proves to be an illusion. When they finally lose the Presidency in this election, it will be even more so in chaos. It will undergo major change and reform, even without the revelation.
The media and polling industry are already destroyed, as Wictor says. The election reversal alone will finish off the credibility of the media. A public revelation of all the evidence is not necessary for that.
The downside would be that the media and many Democrats would spend the next four years complaining that the election was stolen from them by the Supreme Court.
But who cares? Donald Trump has been labeled an illegitimate President since he was first elected. To quote another former candidate: what does it matter at this point? Donald Trump is egoless that way. All those things said about him just roll off his back.
If Trump figures he can get what he wants without the full public exposure, then we probably won't get it. It will be another instance where we win, but not quite in the way we hoped. I'm fine with that. I now expect that with Trump. It reminds me of how in his first campaign, the song you used at the end of his rallies for his outro was "You Can't Always Get What You Want." (I didn't hear that at all this year).
I'm personally leaning strongly towards the idea that Trump will simply win without the big reveal. Contrary to the way he is portrayed, this is the way he does things. He constantly looks for a way to let his opponents save face. "Build a golden bridge for your enemy to retreat over," as Sun Tzu said. As Wictor will tell, Trump's entirely philosophy is based on Sun Tzu.
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