Theft of the U.S. Presidency

Like you, probably, and a zillion other people, I stayed up late November 3rd periodically checking a map of the election returns. I went to bed relieved: Trump/Pence would win the majority of the electoral college. Only to wake up next morning to discover that swing states had flipped and Biden/Kamala won the majority instead.

So far everyone at the Ayn Rand Institute has been silent about the ensuing vote count controversy, tacitly accepting a probable fraud that strikes at the heart of our government’s legitimacy. Everyone? There is one exception, Yaron Brook. No tacit acceptance for him, he is outspoken about it, pooh-poohing the very idea that people wanting Biden president would or could steal the election.

“So is there fraud out there? Yes. Is it only Democrats? No. Why would you think that? What is there in the world to suggest that only Democrats would do this?”

“Why are we assuming that powerlusters on the left are better at this than powerlusters on the right and do it more frequently? I see no evidence to suggest that that is true.”

“Is there a grand scheme? No, couldn’t get away with it. ... I mean really, if there is fraud it’s likely to be small scale, it’s likely to be here and there, it’s likely to affect both political parties. Is there fraud at a scale that would win this particular election when lawyers are everywhere ... where would there be fraud if there are lawyers looking over everybody’s shoulder?”

“My guess is – educated guess – there’s gonna be none of it, none of it’s gonna be provable.”

“The problem is, people just are unbelievably, unthinkingly, gullible, and buy into any story. Particularly if it reinforces their prior beliefs. ... The reason I have been so anti-Trump all these years is because of exactly what’s going on tonight. He is a President who before he ran for president was a conspiracy theorist. ... He was a president who is now using conspiracy theories to try to hold onto power when it looks like ... the democratic process, the process of voting, has voted him out.”

Mr. Brook then asks us to remember that Trump thinks he would have done even better in 2016 were it not for vote fraud, and that:

“... if he believed that, why didn’t he send even more lawyers? Why wasn’t he even better prepared? I mean, don’t buy this nonsense. Don’t buy it.”

When Democrats attempt something risky, fighting the clock, they will do it well and thoroughly:

“If Democrats are cheating ... why aren’t they cheating more effectively? Why are they so bad at it? ... If they’re really this good, don’t you think we would have seen a blue wave? Why didn’t the Democrats cheat to the extent of a blue wave?”

“It was back then, yeah ... it doesn’t look like they’re very good right now. They should have had Biden win much easier. They could have had the Senate and could have gained in the House.”

Judge: “Well, Mr. Hunter, what do you have to say for yourself this time?”

Me: “I’m innocent, your honor. I only had time to – I mean, would I take only $100,000 when there was $1,000,000 in the vault?”

“It looks like the Republicans will hold the Senate, and if the Republicans hold the Senate then what can Biden do? How bad can it really get? All the things that we were told ... are not gonna happen because the Republicans, the bastions and protectors of freedom, will not let it happen.”

After talking about other subjects Mr. Brook winds up the show on an optimistic note:

“Think about the potential that we have. There are eight billion people on planet earth. Many do not live in even semi-freedom. But more and more of them are living under relative freedom. Think about what that does to progress. Think about billions of minds working on problem solving. Billions of minds entering the global economy ...”