Subj : Re: Not my President!
To   : IB Joe
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Wed Sep 07 2022 13:22:54

On 07 Sep 2022, IB Joe said the following...
 IJ>  JT> Clinton conceded and Democrats were not in denial about the results o
 IJ>  JT> the election. Those are two very big differences. Clinton was not
 IJ>  JT> holding rallies two years after the election claiming that it was sto
 IJ>  JT> from her, and members of Congress were not publicly floating the idea
 IJ>  JT> that she had actually won. The scale of the reactions to the two even
 IJ>  JT> was very, very different.
 IJ> Yes she was... She was doing press interviews and writing books.... "What
 IJ> Happened!" "What Really Happened!" "What Really Really Happened" ... and
 IJ> so on. If the Republicans take the house we can at least have a real
 IJ> examination of January 6th... testimony with cross examination... Maybe
 IJ> they can release the 14000 hours of video and release Nancy's emails as
 IJ> to why she didn't accept the National Guard to protect the House

Simply asking "What happened?" indicates an intention to move on beyond
denial. It's a post-mortem-type analysis of the campaign, in a "where did
*we* go wrong" sense, a "why did we lose?" sense. It's introspective.

Did Trump ever seriously ask "What happened?" No, he went straight to
baseless conspiracy theories blaming his loss on others. Every conspiracy
theory he espoused involved him actually winning the election but being
thwarted by ne'er-do-wells from the opposing party. He never stopped to ask
what, if anything, he and his campaign might have done wrong to lose the
election. It's just blame, blame, blame someone else. That's denial.

Jeff.

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