Source: Orange County Register
by Ted Rall
“After an election, we make nice. The loser congratulates the victor; everybody shakes hands and promises a smooth transition of power. Spicy campaign rhetoric notwithstanding, such courtesies in service to the God of Stability are made possible by the underlying assumption that, while competing candidates and parties offer different ideas of how to achieve a better America, that’s the goal we all want because we all supposedly have similar values. Conveying a sense of continuity was no doubt paramount on President Joe Biden’s mind when he delivered his postelection invitation to President-elect Donald Trump to visit the White House. … Understandable, laudable desires by establishmentarians. Following this particular election, in which Democrats amped up the existential-threat-to-democracy histrionics to volume 11, however, Trump’s erstwhile opponents look like the boy who cried biggest, bitey-est rabid wolf ever.” (11/21/24)