I was listening to the Spiked podcast. They're basically ex Trot Libertarians sympathetic to both Brexit and Trump's supporters, even if Trump himself is a bit to gauche for their tastes.
They said that Trump had alleged fraud 'with as far as we can tell no evidence' and that was bad but the elite alleged fraud in both the Brexit referendum and Trump's 2016 win.
And then it occured to me. Only someone willing to sit up all night watching this and getting a non MSM source of news like here would even know about the evidence. Tweets containing evidence got yeeted within minutes. The MSM won't mention it, just like they didn't mention Hunter Biden's laptop or the evidence that China bribed him. Or they won't mention anything that damages the narrative that the MSM want to push on anything.
And you think if even people like Spiked don't know about the evidence who does? It reminds me of Orwell's worry that 'objective truth was fading out of the world'
https://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1
It's like the final, crushing, victory of the post-modernist left. There's no objective truth as to how many votes there were. There's just the number the Democrats claim and all other claims or evidence of fraud will get memory-holed.
And as someone pointed out you can see how this will affect the Republican Party by how it affected the Conservatives. The media made a great fuss about how the Conservative Party was seen as 'the nasty party' and they needed to 'detoxify the brand' by becoming a complete clone of Blair's Labour, apart from support for the invasion of Iraq which had destroyed Blair. Cameron famously adopted Blair's pro-Europeanism, his economic policies, his support for Europe, and his relaxed - to put it mildly - attitude to mass immigration. All of this was because the media - who liked all those policies - told him that's what the polls said the public wanted.
The public clearly did not though - hence Brexit which forced the robotically pro-EU Cameron to quit, May to take over to try to filibuster it, and finally Boris.
I could see something like this happen to the Republicans. They'll become the Democrats less the most obviously insane and unpopular policies the Democrats have adopted. And each election they'll lose because of fraud and the fundamentally unpopular nature of those policies. And then the media will say 'Looks like the Republicans need to do some more detoxifying of their party to get rid of the stain Trump left'. Meanwhile the Democrats will move further and further to the left and burrow deeper and deeper into the state.
Blair set up a partisan Supreme Court in the UK which rules in favor of Blairite policies and very much against any non-Blairite ones. He signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights which works much the same way. I think Brexit was the public finally getting sick of being told they couldn't have the policies they wanted by the likes of Cameron and May because of the EU.