Well, it’s election day again…or, rather it’s done. I think; not really sure anymore. Has it been a week already? My how time flies; I’m not really sure anyone can keep track at this point. But, the important thing is that you’re here now, so you’re obviously interested in what I have to say. That or you’re horribly lost. Regardless, I present you to some election thoughts in no particular order:

• If I was a Democratic politician (and I am not), I would be hopping mad with the Democratic top brass. I will remind you that before the election, Democrats were talking about not just holding the House and winning the Presidency in dominant fashion but also flipping around 6-10 seats in the Senate. As it stands, Joe Biden is going to narrowly squeak into the Oval Office, the Senate is likely to remain in Republican hands, and Republicans will probably be within 5-10 seats of a majority in the House. People forget that Obama, for all the personal charisma he commanded, essentially led the Democratic Party into the political wilderness. They lost Senate seats, House seats, governorships, a mind-boggling number of state legislature positions, and more. Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden don’t seem to have fully realized this yet. The fact remains that Charles Krauthammer was right; America is still a center to center-right country, and this leftist march is not playing well with voters. Even in 2018, the Democratic blue wave there was largely with more moderate candidates. One person who realizes this rather poignant fact is Joe Manchin, who just yesterday shot down any chance of the Democrats packing the Court or nixing the filibuster (Republicans are overwhelmingly likely to get at least 50 seats, so Manchin’s opposition makes it 51 at a minimum).
• We’ll get to any voter fraud claims in a moment, but I do have to say, I think the media is worth about 5 points for Democrats. Had they covered Biden in the same way they covered Trump, I cannot imagine Biden winning. The margin is just too small for me to think that without that kind of concerted effort, he would have squeaked it by. They deserve every criticism in the book. Good riddance to ’em.
• So Mr. Trump is going to court, maybe the Court. Andrew McCarthy has a wonderful piece outlining the process he’ll have to go through, and I just gotta say that I don’t think he’s going to win. First off, the suit is not alleging individual ballot-changing, so any news on that front is just a non-starter. Yes, there was a hiccup in Michigan with some software that switched votes from Trump to Biden, but (a) it was nowhere near enough to swing the election, and (b) they caught it and corrected it. If your allegation in that case is that this is going on all over the place without us knowing about it, then I can’t do anything about that. It would be definitionally undetected, and thus we’ll never know about it, and thus it’s not worth casting doubt on our electoral integrity over an unknown and unprovable assertion. Second, he still needs a miracle in multiple states. Pennsylvania is just the start, and if he doesn’t win there, it’s over. If he does, he still has to win in multiple other states with multiple other lawsuits. Should he win all these lawsuits and by extension the election, his legal team will be deserving of a lifetime of free meals and stays from any Trump resort or hotel.
• I have major concerns with a Biden Presidency, but I’m not overly worried honestly. Republicans will likely have a check on his radical bones in the Senate (not to mention investigative committee power for, oh I don’t know, pecuniary discrepancies shall we call them), and there are certain things Biden could, — I say, could — end up doing better than Trump. I’m thinking primarily of rejoining TPP and hopefully granting some stability and normalcy to our relations with allies. All the while, the Democrats, because they have let the crazies in, will continue to eat themselves, and I am happy to watch it unfold.
• I had fun with the Trump Presidency, but now that it looks like it’s over, Republicans, particularly those who are Christians, have got to move on.* Both the Republican Party and the Church, more importantly, are institutions that last beyond singular individuals, and if that fails to be the case for Republicans or the American Church, then what good were those institutions anyway? I really doubt that’s going to happen, but let me just say particularly for Christians who backed Trump, we cannot — I repeat, CANNOT — (a) ruin our witness over this election by promoting conspiracy and falsehood, (b) become sore losers, or (c) treat the other side as the very incarnation of evil. In case we have forgotten, sin is a universal problem, failing to distinguish between Red and Blue. Any talk of Trump in messianic or “confronting the powers of darkness” terms is not just foolish; it is deeply and wickedly un-Christian. I like Trump’s policies more than Biden’s. I love his judicial appointments. I think he has been a friend to the pro-life movement. I think he ought to litigate to his little heart’s content over this election if he thinks he has a shot to win. I’m kind of sad that my guy lost to the other guy. I have major concerns about a Biden Presidency. I refuse, however, to make this a cosmic event. That is thoroughly unbecoming of us as Christians. Such talk should be exclusively reserved for Jesus, the only and true King.

*Just as an aside, take a look at the coalition Trump built over his Presidency, particularly with Latin Americans. If I’m a Republican, I’m very optimistic about this future coalition.