Throughout American history, there has been great emotions as battles for the Presidency go on, but at the end, when the election is over, the loser has always conceded with grace and dignity.
This includes the John Adams-Thomas Jefferson race in 1800, the first time an incumbent has lost to a challenger.
It includes the John Quincy Adams-Andrew Jackson Presidential races in 1824 and 1828.
It includes the Abraham Lincoln–Stephen Douglas–John C. Breckinridge–John Bell four way race on the eve of the Civil War in 1860.
It includes the hotly contested 1876 Presidential race between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden, resolved by the political deal known as the Compromise of 1877.
It includes the four way contested race of 1912 between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Eugene Debs.
It includes the upset election victory of Harry Truman against Thomas E. Dewey in 1948.
It includes the John F. Kennedy-Richard Nixon race in 1960, which Nixon thought might have been corrupt, but chose not to challenge.
It also includes the Presidential election of 2000, when Al Gore challenged the results in court, but then was graceful once the Supreme Court intervened in favor of George W. Bush.
And it includes the grace and dignity of John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, when they lost to Barack Obama.
But now, we have had indications that Donald Trump will not concede, and will claim a “rigged” election if he loses, and this will only encourage civil disorder, and the potential for bloodshed and violence, and refusal to allow a peaceful transition to the inauguration and administration of Hillary Clinton.
This is not a laughing matter one iota, and a very worrisome matter!
His rambling appearance in Pennsylvania last night was probably his most disjointed one yet, Professor.
It was the closest to a dictator’s stream of unconsciousness.. Frightening!
Yes, Trump is a VERY dangerous, unhinged man!