By Franklin County resident Larry Wiwi
As a conservative, I have read many columns by Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor among other talents and generally I agree with his assessment on most topics, but recently read a late December article of his in National Review and find myself in disagreement though I am certain he is technically correct.
Mr. McCarthy was making the case that President Trump really did lose the election and moreover that the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) was right in not hearing the Texas lawsuit because, “Texas lacked standing because a state has no cognizable interest in how another state conducts elections.” I believe McCarthy is technically correct that no state should be telling another how to conduct elections but he and SCOTUS are wrong on the larger point: States do have an interest in how other states manage elections if other state’s mismanagement of elections changes the overall outcome of a national election to the detriment of their state’s voters. Indiana voters clearly and overwhelmingly chose President Trump, but if mismanaged or fraudulent elections in other states like PA, MI, WS, GA for example caused those states to go to Biden that otherwise would have gone to Trump, then Indiana voters were clearly harmed. Again, McCarthy and SCOTUS can make the lawful technical argument, but the law isn’t always right or moral.
Those of us who believe the election was stolen are being given the usual, expected treatment – we are kooks, crazies, conspiracy theorist, etc., who just need to get over it and move on. Well sorry, I am not moving on and I refuse to address Biden as president, the only title I will give him is Commander-in-Thief. He occupies the White House and has executive authority that he almost immediately started to use to harm Americans in opening the borders and cancelling the XL pipeline to name just a couple, but he is not my president.
I will allow that perhaps my data sources are incorrect, maybe Trump really did lose the election, but so many things are so improbable and frankly fail to pass any reasonability test that at best our leadership, especially non-Trump Republican leadership, failed miserably in investigating sufficiently to remove the doubt and leave us with any confidence in future elections.
My personal recommendation is that we lean really hard on our state legislators and congress to conduct election investigations to at least enable us to re-establish election confidence. One way to do that is send the below link to them which is a two hour show of evidence assembled by “My Pillow” founder Mike Lindell
We can’t give up on America – we are still humanity’s best hope.
Larry Wiwi
