The War On Democracy: A Reinforcing Cycle
By 
Trump is trying to delegitimize an election he won for a reason:
Donald Trump’s tweets yesterday about “the millions of people who voted illegally in 2016” and “serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California” cannot be dismissed as just another Twitter meltdown from the president-elect. (It goes without saying that Trump’s claims are categorically false.)
His conspiracy theories about rigged elections during the presidential race were meant to delegitimize the possibility of Hillary Clinton’s election. But now that he’s won the election we have to take his words far more seriously. He will appoint the next attorney general, at least one Supreme Court justice and thousands of positions in the federal government. His lies about the prevalence of voter fraud are a prelude to the massive voter suppression Trump and his allies in the GOP are about to unleash.
Imagine a world in which a significant number of conservative evangelicals, in the runup to an election with a Supreme Court vacancy, spent most of their time groaning about how because the Supreme Court hadn’t overruled Roe v. Wade the Republican Party did nothing for evangelical voters, and Trump was only the slightest bit to the right of Hillary Clinton, and perhaps this was good time to engage in some C+ Econ 101 reasoning about why voting is for suckers. Their media outlets would spend much of the election trying to make major scandals out of the fact that Paul Ryan had a publicist on his staff. I really prefer this world to the one we have.