Why Biden’s ‘High Road’ Strategy is Dangerous For Him and America

As a political observer, chances are you fall into one of two camps: those who believe President-elect Joe Biden’s masterfully handled Donald Trump’s 4-week-old juvenile “I WON!” national meltdown or, that for the sake of his own destiny and that of the nation’s, he should set an example and the right precedent by wiping the floor with him. For several critical reasons, I’m in the latter group.

To begin with, we must preserve the integrity of our free and fair elections by insisting that the winners won and the losers lost. There’s no wiggle room. We cannot allow a candidate to undermine democracy by ‘refusing to accept’ the will of the people. Will every sore-losing politician now believe he or she can simply deny that the results are real? Claim the election was rigged? Thereby sowing further division and fomenting even more partisan toxicity?

With his incessant “RIGGED ELECTION!” rhetoric, Trump’s successfully convinced two-thirds of Republican voters that Biden stole the election. This is a very dangerous landscape he’s tilling. It’s also incredibly counter-intuitive for the GOP. The more he hammers the base about rigged elections the less inclined they are to vote. “Why bother?” is what we’re currently hearing from Georgia Republicans as that state faces a critical run-off election January 5th which…