{"id":8392,"date":"2026-02-05T08:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:53:08","slug":"trumps-lost-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/trumps-lost-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Lost Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Courts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After the 2020 elections, there were fifty-eight legal cases challenging the Presidential results.\u00a0\u00a0Fifty-eight times lawyers went to Courts; local, state and Federal; to challenge the narrow Joe Biden victory over Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0And fifty-seven times, the varying Courts in the United States found that the election count was accurate.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not surprisingly, most cases were in the \u201cswing states\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Pennsylvania \u2013 17 cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Georgia \u2013 12 cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Michigan \u2013 8 cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Wisconsin \u2013 7 cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Arizona \u2013 7 cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Nevada \u2013 2 cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Texas \u2013 2 cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Washington, DC \u2013 1 case<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Minnesota \u2013 1 case<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">New Mexico \u2013 1 case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/electioncases.osu.edu\/case-tracker\/page\/6\/?sortby=filing_date_desc&amp;keywords&amp;status=all&amp;state=all&amp;topic=25\">(The Ohio State University has a full listing of all of the cases).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The election results of 2020 were \u201cfully litigated\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Several went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, a body already slanted for the Republican President.\u00a0\u00a0But even those Justices failed to find reason to rule in his favor.\u00a0\u00a0Trump finally sent a mob to disrupt the Congressional certification of the election on January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0But the Insurrection failed, and on January 20<sup>th<\/sup>, Joe Biden was sworn in as the forty-sixth President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In Arizona, the Republican state legislature ordered a full investigation of their 2020 votes.\u00a0\u00a0They hired the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/electioncases.osu.edu\/case-tracker\/page\/6\/?sortby=filing_date_desc&amp;keywords&amp;status=all&amp;state=all&amp;topic=25\">Cyber-Ninjas<\/a>\u201d to do a detailed audit of every vote.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cNinjas\u201d were really hired to \u201cfix\u201d the results in Trump\u2019s favor.\u00a0\u00a0But even they couldn\u2019t do it, because, there was no \u201cfix\u201d in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0After spending millions of Arizona dollars, all the \u201cNinjas\u201d could do was slink out of town.  The results didn\u2019t change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State machine counted the votes once, then ordered a physical hand count of every Georgia ballot.  He then had a machine count taken again.\u00a0\u00a0Biden won the election, all three times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So why is the WINNER of the 2024 Presidential election, now the forty-seventh President Donald Trump, still trying to \u201cwin\u201d the 2020 election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Original&nbsp;Lost Cause<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In the decades\u00a0after the American Civil War, the former Confederacy waged a renewed battle, this time with what in modern terms we would call a \u201cpropaganda\u201d campaign.\u00a0\u00a0At the time of the war the struggle was clearly a Nation divided by Southern determination to maintain slavery.\u00a0\u00a0But the story was &#8220;re-imagined\u201d as a war for \u201cstate sovereignty\u201d over \u201cfederal over-reach\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow was forgotten, and the heroism of Pickett\u2019s Charge elevated.\u00a0\u00a0In the early 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, monuments were erected to Southern sacrifice all over the South. The Confederate generals were exalted over the Union leaders who defeated them.\u00a0 Confederate\u00a0Robert E Lee was the brilliant strategist; Union General Ulysses S Grant just a \u201cbutcher\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">By the 1950\u2019s, most Americans, North and South, had a totally different view of the Civil War than those who actually participated in it. It wasn\u2019t until the 1970\u2019s that our education system began to look at the \u201cLost Cause\u201d movement for what it was; a false story written by the loser to justify their sacrifice and failure.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cLost Cause\u201d remains a force today.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s difficult for many Americans to put false \u201ceducation\u201d of decades aside, and deal with the fact of an economic system built on the forced labor of enslaved humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modern Lost Cause<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Trump Administration, like the defeated Confederacy of old, is trying to re-write history.\u00a0\u00a0They have their own \u201cLost Cause\u201d, the election of 2020 when the reality of the Covid Pandemic turned a close margin of the Nation&#8217;s vote from Trump to Biden. (Just as the reality of inflation resulting from Covid recovery narrowly turned the Nation from Harris back to Trump).\u00a0\u00a0But, in their mythology, Trump couldn\u2019t lose.\u00a0\u00a0So it must be some conspiracy, some cabal of liberal Democrats that nefariously altered the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Speaker Mike Johnson explained it all so well this week.\u00a0\u00a0He acknowledged that there is no evidence of election fraud, no reasonable scenario where the 2020 election was \u201cstolen\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0But, he said, it didn\u2019t \u201cfeel right\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0After all, as they counted the votes, Trump was winning, and then, as the count went on, he lost.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Commentators call it the \u201cRed Mirage\u201d, when typical modern voting behaviors cause more Republican votes to be counted \u201cup front\u201d, and more Democratic votes counted afterwards.\u00a0\u00a0For example:\u00a0\u00a0Pennsylvania reports out the election day votes before any absentee or early votes are reported.\u00a0\u00a0So if more Republicans vote on election day then Republicans look like they&#8217;re winning on the first reports.  More Democrats vote early or absentee, so later reports  \u201cdrift\u201d back to Democratic as more ballots are added.\u00a0\u00a0But Johnson claims that this is \u201cevidence\u201d of fraud, even though the explanation was clear even before the counting\u00a0\u00a0began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Johnson must know this.\u00a0\u00a0But he\u2019s willing to use his \u201cfeelings\u201d to persuade Americans that there is something \u201ccrooked\u201d with the American electoral system.\u00a0\u00a0And that \u201ccrookedness\u201d isn\u2019t historical for Johnson and the Trump cohort, it\u2019s their \u201cevidence\u201d of current and even future election rigging.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s their excuse to take control of the election process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elections in America<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The US Constitution is clear on the point:\u00a0<em>\u201cThe times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time make or alter such regulations\u2026\u201d (Article I, Section 4).\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0States control elections, Congress may make regulations regarding them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But President Trump wants to \u201cFederalize\u201d the election process, particularly in those states that voted against him in the last elections.\u00a0\u00a0A \u201cFederalized\u201d process would be a Trump controlled process, the final step in making sure he stays in office, even after his second term expires.\u00a0\u00a0He would make the \u201cRed Mirage\u201d a real thing, cutting off vote counts when he is ahead, regardless of the remaining ballots left uncounted, as he suggested in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s to Lose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The goal of the Republican leaders is to make Americans \u201cfeel\u201d that the elections are \u201crigged\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0That would make them more amenable to changes to our election system, even though a \u201cFederalized\u201d system is more likely to be \u201chacked\u201d (perhaps the point).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Currently the United States has fifty-one different systems.\u00a0\u00a0That diversity is one of the ways that we secure our elections from interference.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The \u201cLost Cause\u201d myth of the 2020 election isn\u2019t just a way to assuage Trump\u2019s hurt ego.\u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s what Trump has to lose.\u00a0\u00a0If a 2026 Congressional election puts Congress in Democratic hands, Trump will face two years of opposition, investigation and probable impeachment.\u00a0\u00a0And if 2028 puts a Democrat in the White House, it\u2019s unlikely they\u2019ll make the same mistake Biden made in 2021.\u00a0\u00a0It won\u2019t take two years to begin an investigation of Trump\u2019s improprieties as President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There is an entire theory that Trump ran for President in 2024 to avoid the Jack Smith investigation. \u00a0\u00a0Now that he\u2019s in office, surely he\u2019ll continue to do whatever he can to stay out of jail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His willingness to alter or abolish our voting system to save himself from the consequences of his actions,  is a seminal threat to American Democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts After the 2020 elections, there were fifty-eight legal cases challenging the Presidential results.\u00a0\u00a0Fifty-eight times lawyers went to Courts; local, state and Federal; to challenge the narrow Joe Biden victory over Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0And fifty-seven times, the varying Courts in the United States found that the election count was accurate.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not surprisingly, most cases were in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/trumps-lost-cause\/\" 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