It’s not just about him or Joe

Many – including our PM Scott Morrison with his unsubtle public phone chat the other day with Joe Biden, whom he repeatedly called President-Elect, are urging Donald Trump to just concede and go. They believe that no matter what skulduggery is unearthed in the Republicans’ probe into irregularities (to put it politely) among the millions of mailed-in ballots, the result will be the same: Biden will be officially declared the next president on December 14 by the Electoral College. 

But that misses a crucial point. As Trump has said, it is not just about whether it is “me or Joe” in the White House after January 20, 2021, but about the failures of the voting apparatus of the United States. The not so united about…