The title of this post is a quote from the Duke of Wellington about the Battle of Waterloo.
I take it to mean that, if one or two minor things had or hadn't happened, Napoleon would have won.
And the history of Europe would have been very different.
The margin for error was just that thin.
The more we learn about the January 6th insurrection, the more clearly we see that it was also a "nearest run thing."
You might think that a lifetime of bankruptcies, business failures, divorces, and indictments would have taught Donald J. Trump how to accept defeat.
Au contraire.
The King of the MAGAts had a plan to overturn the election. A 6 point plan, put together by the kind of lawyers that attach themselves to people like Donald J. Trump, i.e. the sleaziest kind.
And, if one or two things had gone his way...
Our democracy is just that fragile.
The Founders anticipated many things. They did not anticipate something like Donald J. Trump, with a hand picked Supreme Court, and a political party so afraid of him that it would be willing to trash the Constitution just to keep him happy.
By the way, Mike Pence really deserves no credit for ultimately not going along with the plan. He searched and searched and searched for a way to do what his Master wanted.
Finally, apparently after consulting with another half-wit Hoosier former Veep, he did the right thing, the only thing he legally could do.
(And, naturally, was then threatened with death by Traitor Don's traitorous followers.)
When the fate of your democracy rests on the Constitutional wisdom of Dan Quayle, you have truly dodged a bullet.
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