On the evening of the election I, like virtually every other American, sat in my living room watching the election coverage on TV, listened to the pontificating fools who masquerade as enlightened unbiased seekers (and purveyors) of truth. I watched early on as they all, no matter the network, said that there was essentially no way for Trump to ever reach 270. Each showed variations of possible outcomes, each and every one based solely (I cannot stress this following point enough) upon the electoral college and the 270 votes necessary for victory.
This, and this alone, is how I measure legitimacy. Russia or some other malfeasance, simply does not, nor cannot, explain why such a focus was all prevailing as the evening began, yet has since been called illegitimate by way of questioning the legitimacy of the election by the very rules that they themselves embraced with 100% conviction, mere hours earlier. Either the electoral college is legitimate and the winner must reach 270 votes or our elite media representatives lied about that necessity.
Not once was Russia, voter suppression, illegal voting, popular vote or any other such nonsense spewed that evening. The reality is that it transpired just as our founding fathers envisioned. That each and every state would play an integral part in the deciding of the president. The fact that several states that were expected to vote for Hillary in fact voted for Trump, or that their numbers were collectively smaller than the totals for Hillary are simply nice delusional talking points, means that the system worked perfectly as designed, even though the outcome was unbelievable.
Because it was unbelievable makes it all the more legitimate. The fact that it wasn’t, and apparently couldn’t be, foreseen shows just what foresight our founding fathers had. The wisdom shown in a nation that is a collection of states, rather than just a monolithic entity; whereby we’re not governed by the force of numbers but by the combined wisdom (right or wrong) of each States' equal representation.
This is the legitimacy of our current President. Like it or not; he was duly elected by the American public by the representation they posses as members of their individual State.
As a result, because so many, particularly progressives, believe in federal jurisdiction and abhor ‘states rights’ is why they’ve, most of all, lost their minds.
