The assumption that there wasn’t a level of cheating and interference in that election is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Both sides have been playing the game of gerrymandering and creating districts in their favor when it suits them and they have the power to do so, conservatives just played it better and now have control of enough courts to legalize it or drag out the fight until the election comes and goes and the fight is irrelevant.

I firmly believe that his “stolen election” complaint is because he cheated but it wasn’t enough, they “stole” his rigged win. Now they’re consolidating power, tweaking maps, voter suppression, creating barriers to voting, who the fuck knows how secure our machines even are at this point. The next election is a test of how successful their new tactics are, because when he runs illegally for a third term they want to be damn sure the ability to steal a win is foolproof. When he runs it’ll get challenged, it’ll get drawn out, he’ll keep running, his system will hand him what looks like a huge win, he’ll declare it’s a mandate from the people.

A chance for what exactly?