This series of “King Over the Water” posts (the reference is to the Stuart Pretenders, James II, his son and grandson) circles around basic questions: what do Joe Biden, or Democrats or just people who value our civic democracy do if Trumpists or Republicans or some fraction of them refuse to accept that Joe Biden is the legitimate President and continue to believe lies about voter fraud?

Stop and read this amazing story.

A growing number of opinioners and editorialists are now arguing that those who warned that the corrupt Supreme Court majority was ready to steal the election on behalf of Donald Trump were simply wrong. As evidence they point to the federal judiciary’s general refusal to entertain basically any of the Trump legal team’s increasingly outlandish court challenges and examples like yesterday when the Supreme Court rejected without dissent or comment a challenge to the results of the election in Pennsylvania. But this opinion is wrong.

Don’t give the cable news outlet too much credit. It’s done little besides the most basic function of a major news outlet during a presidential election — which is, declare a winner when there’s a winner. 

So the Trump DOJ had an active criminal investigation going against Hunter Biden while Trump was being impeached for extorting Ukraine for dirt on … Hunter Biden?

Yesterday, Zoe Richards brought us this report about anti-masking protests in Idaho which involved armed protestors showing up at the homes of public officials while they met to vote on a new COVID mitigation ordinance. The meeting was called off so one Ada County Commissioner, Diana Lachiondo, could go home to where he son was home alone as armed protestors menaced the home. Last night Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee told reporters there are now three active arrest warrants for people involved in the protest outside Lachiondo’s home and likely more arrest warrants coming. “In connection with Commissioner Lachiondo’s house, we have three active arrest warrants and we are securing other warrants for other activities related that was criminal to the events that occurred last night,” said Chief Lee.

President Trump often enlists the vice president to fight his more serious battles for him.

A month ago New Hampshire Republicans reclaimed control of the state House of Representatives. Last week Rep. Dick Hinch (R-Merrimack) became the new Speaker of the House. Yesterday he died of COVID. It appears that a GOP caucus meeting on November 20th may have a superspreader event.

Special thanks to TPM Reader IE for letting me know.

This is not a surprising number. But a new Quinnipiac Poll finds that 77% of Republicans believe there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Overall 60% believe the election was legitimate.

Break that down and you have 3% of Democrats believing there was widespread fraud, 35% of independents and 77% of Republicans.

At the suggestion of TPM Reader JC, I pulled up this article Jane Mayer published in The New Yorker just before the November election. It’s about why and how Trump feared losing – specifically legal vulnerability and crushing debt. But Mayer talked to Michael Cohen, who quite presciently described the aftermath of Trump’s defeat.

There are a few paragraphs about Mayer’s discussion with Trump. But this is the key one.