Trump Supporters Could Get Violent, But This Could Have Been Worse

No one knows how much violence this country will experience at the hands of heavily armed and totally infuriated Trump supporters who believe their hero was removed via a fraudulent election.

Yet regardless the amount, we all need to be thankful that this is playing itself out over time, during which:

• A huge barrage of legal challenges are being slowly (but steadily) thrown out of court, and the lack of evidence for fraud becomes clearer

• Trump’s behavior become so unhinged that much of his base comes to see him as a danger to the U.S.

• His own people report that there was no significant voter fraud, and Fox News backs off on these assertions

• The stress that people suffer under the pandemic make the disappearance of Trump less dominant in their lives

• Those who shoot anti-Trumpers indiscriminately face life in prison, like the 17-year-old charged in the shooting deaths of two protesters in Wisconsin

• The shock of the loss wears off to some degree

This is bad, but it really could have been worse.