Maintaining Hope in a Time of Lies, by Auguste Meyrat

Last Saturday, after all major news media outlets announced Joe Biden’s presidential victory, ebullient Biden supporters (or more precisely, Trump opponents) took to the streets to celebrate. Mr. Biden obliged the crowd of supporters—oddly, the largest crowd he has ever had—and gave a speech accepting the job of president of the United States.

Few people, conservatives or progressives, seemed to have the wherewithal to remind the country that the media do not call elections and that many states’ election results are still being contested and ballots are still being counted. If President Trump wins these states in the final count, or if his lawyers prove that Mr. Biden cheated, this presumed outcome will be reversed. To simply ignore this key fact and pop the champagne bottles prematurely serves only to mislead and confuse so many Americans about the process—which may very well be the point.  …

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