This week, Republican supporters of President Donald Trump were dealt yet another legal blow when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to even consider one of their Pennsylvania-related election lawsuits. One GOP lawsuit after another has unsuccessfully tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, claiming, without evidence, that Trump was the victim of widespread voter fraud and that former Vice President Joe Biden isn’t really president-elect.
But Never Trump conservative Jonathan V. Last, writing in The Bulwark this week, argues that while the GOP’s election lawsuits haven’t been a success from a legal standpoint, they have been a raging success from a political standpoint.
Last explains, “Everyone laughs at how stupid the Trump lawsuits are. Can you believe these morons? They lose everywhere! Even Republican judges keep slapping them down! How embarrassing for Trump! But that’s the wrong way to think about Trump’s actions since November 3, because his goal hasn’t been to keep the office of the president — it’s been to keep the Republican Party.” Continue reading.