Trusting, but Verifying in Michigan

Anecdotal evidence of election fraud is one thing: Proving it is quite another.

Photo by Obi Onyeador on Unsplash.

That the media at large continues to ignore the many reports of election fraud, or even insist such allegations have already been thoroughly investigated and found to be baseless, doesn’t, unfortunately for all of us, make it true.

Certainly not anymore. The media has been caught too many times over the past years willingly misleading the American public in general, and conservatives in particular, to retain a great level of trust. Trust in the mass media industry is, in fact, at an all time low.

Whatever Joe Biden’s sympathizers in the media may insist, the 2020 election was unusual by any modern U.S. metric. Donald Trump was winning at the close of Election Day in major swing states…leads which then inexorably shifted to Biden, and only in the direction of Joe Biden, in days that followed.

A closer look is going to be needed at this election. The massive expansion of mail-in balloting almost guaranteed it. The media’s attempts to gloss over that fact, and the efforts of elected Democrats- who have insisted for four years that Donald Trump stole the election in 2016- to immediately dismiss the allegations are in vain.

This unseemly hurry and insistence, without having reported on it at all, that the…