I don’t know what we’re supposed to do with a statement like “it will be an unprecedented clusterfuck and they’ll steal it somehow”. How are they going to do it? How are they going to get enough electoral votes in close states to the Supreme Court to throw the election that way? How many close states are Republican legislatures and governors and Supreme Courts (I think FL and TX)? Any Dem in the chain is going to throw sand in the gears of a stolen election.

How are enough balloting precincts going to be shut down, if the Dems are outright leading in the suburbs too and a huge number are voting early or by mail? Fucking with the mail has made Dems paranoid about banking their votes early, and discouraged goopers from voting by mail and therefore maybe voting at all; how is that actually helping them? We’re already able to monitor mail-in returns, and Dems look like they’re doing substantially better than expected (a good resource here).

Every Dem I know is paranoid about this election in a way that is totally, utterly unlike 2016. The whole public discussion of the election is about how Biden is significantly ahead and how the Republicans are trying to steal it. Third parties are essentially dead. I don’t think complacency or optimism are problems here.