Recently, the New York Times reported on a set of simulations run by a bipartisan group called the Transition Integrity Project. Both the Project itself and the mainstream media reports about it focused obsessively on fears that Donald Trump would refuse to accept the results if he lost the election.
Those fears were in keeping with theories on the Left that Trump was deliberately starving the Postal Service of funds so it would be unable to serve as a vehicle for a vote-by-mail election in November—a fear Trump himself has stoked with recent comments—and (much less plausibly) that Trump’s deployment of federal officers to Portland was a dry run for imposition of martial law.
Indeed, most of the misbehavior anticipated in the simulations was by Trump, and the report itself was clearly predisposed to assume the worst about him and the best about his adversaries (for example, the Communist and anarchist rioters who assaulted the federal courthouse in Portland on a nightly basis for two months are described as “racial justice protestors”).
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