Creative Speculation

Tbere was no conspiracy. If you paid attention, it was remarkably sloppy. First the recounts, then the wrangling over absentee ballots, the bogus certifications, the venue shopping, the spin doctoring, and finally the rush to the Supreme Court. It had to get to the Supremes because that gave a guaranteed outcome and left no room for appeals.

And it all happened in plain sight. No conspiracy here. All perfectly legal, if you take the word of Jim Baker, a world-class fixer.

The real conspiracy is that, after the country saw some of the Byzantine procedures and venal partisanship in what should be our most trustworthy civil process, things have gotten worse instead of better. Our election results are no more reliable than in Romania.