On the day after the 2020 presidential election, I say I am agnostic about whether the election was decided fairly or unfairly.
The main reasons for my agnosticism are typical:
Anomalies:
In 132 years, no president has received more votes in his re-election campaign and lost. However, Donald Trump received 10 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016 – and lost.
Trump won 18 of 19 counties that both Democrats and Republicans consider swing counties that virtually always hinge on the outcome of the presidential election. And yet he lost.
He won four states – Florida, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina. And yet he lost.
Republicans retained all of the House seats they had defended and gained another 13 seats. However, Trump lost.
Add the following to the anomaly:
Some states have launched unprecedented efforts to change election laws.
Mostly Democratic states sent out tens of millions of ballots or absentee ballot applications to people who never asked for them.
In some states, voting began six weeks before Election Day.
People submitted affidavits at great personal cost and under charges of perjury that they witnessed ballot tampering on election night.
But all of these things wouldn’t matter much if Democrats involved in vote counting felt morally obligated to count votes fairly.
So there’s one question I’ve never heard that trumps all other considerations: Will moral considerations prevent Democrats from cheating to take down Trump? Or, to put the question positively: Would Democrats consider cheating on Joe Biden’s behalf morally obligatory?
The answer to the first question is no: moral considerations will not prevent decent Democrats from cheating to prevent Trump’s re-election. The answer to the second question is yes: decent Democrats would consider cheating on Biden’s behalf morally obligatory.
For four years, the media and their Democrat party told us every day that Trump was a fascist, a dictator, a racist, and a white supremacist; that he was an agent of the Russian government – the real Manchurian candidate. The lying media has repeatedly told us (Trump’s precise description of the mainstream media) that Trump claimed there were “very fine” Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia (see PragerU’s video “The Charlottesville Lie”). Yes, the media with a straight face told us that a man with a Jewish daughter, a Jewish son-in-law and Jewish grandchildren said that there are great Nazis. Biden said he decided to run for president because of this lie.
So here’s the question: why would anyone who sincerely believes that Trump is a fascist, white supremacist dictator NO cheat if he could prevent such a person from becoming or remaining president of the United States?
Let me clarify the question: Would anyone who could stop a fascist, white supremacist, Nazi-defending dictator morally obliged cheat if he could prevent that person from becoming president?
Certainly yes. If I could cheat to prevent a fascist from becoming president, why wouldn’t I cheat? The most relevant example comes to mind: the Nazis in the 1932 elections, the last free elections in Germany until the end of World War II. Although the Nazi Party did not receive a majority of the votes, the Nazis held the most seats in the Reichstag, and the party’s leader, Adolf Hitler, became Chancellor of Germany. If I were able to prevent Nazis from coming to power by cheating in the vote count, wouldn’t I be morally obligated to do so – and therefore I didn’t do it? The answer is obvious.
Again, I never said Biden didn’t win the election. And even if there had been significant fraud, that doesn’t mean the election outcome would have been different.
But beliefs have consequences. If Democrats didn’t know they had lied for four years by calling Trump a fascist, racist, Nazi, dictator, etc., didn’t they have an obligation to lie on Biden’s behalf? So, when you have circumstantial evidence (not evidence) coupled with opportunity, desire, motive, and most importantly, no moral case against cheating and a forceful moral case Down cheating, it is not a “lie” or a crazy conspiracy theory to wonder about the integrity of the 2020 American presidential election.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist. His most recent book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is The Rational Bible, a commentary on the Book of Genesis. His film “No Safe Spaces” was released in home theaters nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and can be contacted at dennisprager.com.
