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In reply to the discussion: Hillary has the right and almost an obligation to say Trump didn't win. [View all]gulliver
(13,205 posts)It is important that she declare victory, because she won. It needs to be asserted. Having a win stolen from you by manipulating the electorate doesn't mean you didn't win. It does in the conventional sense, but the conventions were exploited by Russian criminal activity. Therefore, we need to take a step up in our thinking and determine who won by what is right.
In that sense, the truth is that she did win and that Trump is illegitimate. Most people will recognize the rightness and justice of that position. We are in an exceptional circumstance.
Al didn't declare victory. But then Bush didn't declare a landslide, threaten to jail Gore, or assert that Gore's popular vote victory was the result of voter crime. This is different. The way the Republicans won "by the rules," was to abuse the rules. Therefore, we need to think about the higher rules.