Thinking about it, if in fact it is true that Democrats control the voting machines–at least in many places, as it’s important not to overgeneralize–how would they EVER lose?
Well, in every election they have to make a choice as to how much they want to win. Because the more risks they take, the greater the chance of giving the game away, and risking losing this enormous advantage entirely. Even if they could win literally every election, it would not look good. What any good strategist would want and look for and what they have in fact achieved, is a slow, long term, one way and uninterrupted drift in one direction only, that of greater government control of everything. Some years they use war, and some years appeals to sentimentality denuded of reason.
It might be that Trump won by VASTLY more than we were told. It may have been HUGE. In 2016 he might have won by ten million popular votes. It may have been so large that senior leaders just decided–after consulting with, oh I don’t know, perhaps Obama and John Brennan–to let him win, rather than risk the system itself. They must have decided they could not just control him, but USE him as a flashpoint to continue their long term campaign of division, demonization, and subversion of rational dialogue. That they did. But they failed to remove him, and failed to destroy his support, and failed to neuter him. On the contrary. I think then, as since, everyone underestimated his instinct for survival and winning.
This year, they went all in. For the game. All in and done one way or the other.
We can’t let them win this.