Did anyone check this time, to see if there might have been some rigging done by his side? Of course, after his caterwauling, and the firm insistence of Democrats that the 2020 election was obviously not stolen, it would have seemed hypocritical for Democrats to make that same charge. All I want to know is that someone was keeping a close eye on it and that all of the steps were taken to make sure that the certified ballots were accurate. I never heard anything about that from Democrats, except that Harris would do the right thing, concede, and that there would be a peaceful transfer of power.

Jack Smith handed in his resignation. We got a consolation prize in the release of his report, but it isn't much consolation to realize that the reason the country's biggest existential threat to democracy did not get brought to justice was because an attorney general, appointed by President Biden, deliberately slow-walked and dragged his feet on getting it to trial. It is apparently damaging enough, given the reaction of Trump and his attorneys. But this was one of the most egregious examples of gross negligence and incompetence in American history, and the one which will cause the most damage.

The timely prosecution of those cases by the justice department would have sunk Trump's boat long before the Supreme Court could have attempted his rescue, since, in both cases, immunity would not have applied, even under their ruling. If Merrick Garland had moved with the same kind of speed he did when a few scattered classified documents turned up in Joe Biden's garage, nothing of the kind like those top secret ones Trump had by the dozens, or with the kind of speed he showed in getting information released in the Hunter Biden investigation, Trump wouldn't be the one being inaugurated on Monday.

So, we're about to see exactly how much of a threat Trump is to American Democracy. Among Democrats, it ranges from the passive belief that no elected office holder can drastically change government, and while the policy will be crazy, and the threats insane, the guardrails will hold, to the belief that dictatorship will show itself in an array of executive orders on day one, making it difficult to preserve those elements of the constitution that provide guard rails against dictatorship.

If we have the opportunity, then Democrats need to completely overhaul the party, including setting aside old school status quo politics, and elevating younger leaders to positions of responsibility, younger leaders who are willing to take risks, be bold, and who don't care about protocol. And, who will fight back with intelligent rhetoric, reason and facts, making ideological progress of the Heritage Foundation difficult, if not impossible.