Cities are boarding up ahead of today’s elections, headlines cry. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, workers are “hardening” City Hall and other government buildings in case of election-related shenanigans.

In other words, Democrat-run cities are bracing for the possibility of a Donald Trump victory because of the inevitable fact that their crazy leftist supporters have a tendency to riot at the drop of a hat.

Hypocritically, leftist rags point to January 6, 2021, as the new precedent for this sort of rioting. They have conveniently forgotten all the looting and violence that occurred because of the Black Lives Matter nonsense the previous summer. In fact, when a former coworker told me about the rioting at the Capitol building on January 6, my first words were, “Again?” I presumed it was yet another BLM abomination until she clarified it was right-leaning protesters.

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— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 27, 2020

Democrats also apparently forget that left-leaning lunatics have been behind most of the political rioting and chaos. But at whom do they point fingers? Trump — who has been shot in the ear by one wannabe assassin and nearly shot by another. The violence predominately comes from one side of the aisle, and the attempted gaslighting is in the other direction ridiculous.

Enter Democrat Jamie Raskin with his perspective on election certification. The Maryland congressman was on Bill Maher’s show last Friday, where he said: “When I say, ‘We will support a free and fair election,’ no, we’re not going to allow them to steal it in the states or steal it at the Department of Justice or steal it with any other election official in the country. If it’s a free and fair election, we will do what we’ve always done: We will honor it.”

Jamie Raskin says Democrats will only uphold the peaceful transfer of power if they view the election as fair:
Jamie Raskin: “When I say we will support a free and fair election, no we we’re not going to allow them to steal it in the states, steal it with the Department of… pic.twitter.com/wiczm4yz0I

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) November 2, 2024

Raskin went on to explain to the audience that election-denying and resorting to political violence is a strategy of a fascist regime.

Someone get him a mirror.

Every election that I can remember in which the Democrat candidate lost has been contested by Democrats. It started with George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. When Trump won in 2016, the Democrats lost their ever-loving minds. As RedState’s Nick Arama put it: "When Trump won last, they objected to the electoral count, with Raskin himself registering an objection. Then, there were the schemes people tried to come up with to deny Trump the win by trying to flip electors. Some of the electors were even threatened. Then of course, there were inaugural riots, and the more than 70 Democrats who boycotted the inaugural.”

Next, when Democrats realized their hissy fit wasn’t working, they introduced the Russian collusion hoax that lasted for years and was entirely fabricated — by the Democrats.

For those who need a reminder … Heres 24 straight minutes of Democrats denying election results — dating all the way back to 2000. pic.twitter.com/Fq60eYOFML

— ShotGunBonnie (@ShotGunBonnie) <a href=“https://twitter.com/ShotGunBonnie/status/1733502287786410181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>December 9, 2023

Congressman Raskin is showing the Democrats’ hand. They are managing the expectations of the American people. That’s why Harris’s closing arguments only consist of Trump being a Hitlerian figure. They are setting the groundwork and the moral justification for rioting should they lose. They are also setting up the possibility of not certifying the election — which, under their own definition, would be an insurrection.

As best-selling author Lee Smith points out, “The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment.”

We’ll find out as the week progresses if this is all smoke instead of flames.