I understand the merits of the effort, but the merits are irrelevant to the probability of success and the quantity and quality of effort and resources being put into the effort. These resources are finite, and some things do cost more than they’re worth. If the probability of success was 50% or 100% or even 15%, then fine. I think it’s much, much, lower than that, and the investment doesn’t strike me as worth the effort. An election by the House has precedent… as far back as a little less than 200 years ago, and not one based on faithless electors. Meanwhile, people are pulling out all the stops on technicalities by which Trump might not win: Recounts, fuzzy readings of presidential rules of succession, perplexingly parsed interpretations of the Constitution. The breathlessness of it is kind of astonishing.
I’d rather prepare for what I know will happen than spend this much energy on something that is very unlikely to happen. We’ll be behind, more tired, and with lighter wallets. If people finally start preparing for Trump two-thirds of the way through January, we’re fucked.
