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November 27, 2020 — 8.13am
November 27, 2020 — 8.13am
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Reality appeared to hit US President Donald Trump this week when the General Services Administration gave approval for the transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden to begin. But don't be fooled: reality will not be where Trump wages a long campaign against President-elect Joe Biden.
The assault will be conducted in the realm of unreality, as Trump's Twitter account shows. "Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!" "RIGGED ELECTION!" "2020 is a long way from over". He participated by phone in hearings in the Pennsylvania State Senate on the issue of "massive voter fraud".
Supporters of President Donald Trump rallying for an unreal event: the theft of an election.Credit:AP
The disconnect with the facts on the ground recalls how Trump questioned president Barack Obama's citizenship during his terms in office. Now Trump is again trying to create something – the perception of a "stolen" election, charges of illegitimate power, Biden “voter fraud” claims – from nothing.
It appears effective, too: While one third of US voters believe Biden won because of voter fraud, 77 per cent of Republicans believe that's the reason for his victory, according to a Monmouth University poll.
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History will be clear that Biden won. But the problem for Biden isn’t history: it’s the present. And the risk today is that Biden chooses the same course that Obama did.
Because even through Trump's claims are untrue they will flourish online and in the minds' of his supporters, the meaning of every event reversed-engineered through a polarised pro-Tr ..
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