What comes next?

In 1861 the nation was divided. It was divided along lines too deep to be settled by conventional expectations of courts and social and political institutions; and there were many Americans, as there are today, who didn’t see the questions and issues in play as being beyond the scope of ordinary remedy. They figured, as many assumed now, that the courts, and Congress, and elections would settle things. And they were wrong.

This is not to say I expect to see armed militias of spitting mad conservatives tearing up the streets and hanging blue state pajama boys and Antifa Cosplayers from light posts, but the divide we see now is bigger than the rift that existed in 1861. Wider and deeper. Angrier. Uglier and disingenuous. There is no honor left. It’s just a struggle for raw power and the trenches are filled with useful idiots.

There was an opportunity here. There could have been an enormous fight to authenticate the 2020 vote. It should have been a legal and political battle that would be remembered for generations—an epic effort to ensure that the election produced a new president only if it was proven to be genuinely honest and fraud-free. That would have settled the matter and set things right. Instead, we witnessed a formulaic consultation which cannot possibly establish the absence of fraud in any meaningful way. In many places, we don’t even know how many registered voters there were, that only registered voters voted, or how the count was conducted. The election was designed to be a shitshow, an effort that has taken years to build—no voter ID, early voting and late, mail-in ballots, unverifiable software and systems—and in the midst of the deafening silence of the media, we watched the most casual and cursory checks conducted on the process. It was and is murky and impenetrable by design.

There is not a mathematician or statistician alive who can look at the data and honestly say the election was on the up and up.

So now a feeble creature of the institution will be installed as POTUS, and 72 million plus citizens are expected to just relax, shake their heads, and say, “You can’t fight City Hall, you know!” Personally, I don’t see that happening. The anger is enormous, real, and justified.

Where does this anger go and how is it channeled? I don’t know. Sides were chosen and their enemy has exposed themselves—the media, FB, Twitter, Hollywood, the universities, the deep state bureaucrats. How do they expect to cling to their monopolies and power, their strangelhold on the flow of information, when more than half of the country knows, in their bones, that they are full of shit and standing on our collective neck? How far are they willing to go to cling to the shreds of legitimate power that remain to them? I don’t know that, either.

But we’re going to find out. If voting doesn’t matter, how can anyone expect to govern by the result?