In the last post around Thanksgiving, we noted Mitch McConnell had not yet admitted that Joe Biden won the election. Well, it seems Mitch has had a change of heart and now believes Biden is the President-elect. So there goes the notion that Mitch was all about self-interest and the preservation of power over the virtues of democracy. Nope, he’s now a just doggone patriot who sees reality.

Of course, even in hindsight, that puts him many steps ahead of the election’s real loser, Donald Trump. He continues to throw tantrums about rigged ballots, election fraud and who-knows-what-else as his time in office b begins to fade away. There were, of course, no rigged ballots or fraud on any scale to alter the election results. But Trump — and henchmen like Mitch — have used that spurious claim to refuse to recognize Biden’s win.

On one level, that’s stupidly hilarious. Biden won on the day after the election. But on another level it is appalling, a threat to democracy by a group of belligerent losers claiming that part of our system of government and elections requires weeks of fraudulent allegations. They’re saying “the election process is deeply flawed and you shouldn’t believe in it until we (Republicans) tell you so.” That’s dangerous.

The American electoral system does work. It worked just fine in November, and we legitimately elected Joe Biden. Claiming anything else — for weeks on end — is simply malignant noise that is designed to convince too many Americans that elections are faked.

The electoral system is strong. It was strong even in an unprecedented year when mail-in ballots were incredibly prevalent as a necessary part of safe voting. There was no widespread fraud, there was no real reason to challenge the results. Joe Biden won. Donald Trump lost.

And he’s still a loser, one about to be removed from office. One who will face a very different landscape after January 20th. One who will discover that even self-administered pardons — if he takes that route — offer no protection from state criminal cases against him. And my goodness, those cases ae coming.

Donald has always been a cry-baby. We’re about to see that big time. Can’t wait.