Michael Moore was Right About Trump Win in 2016. Maybe he'll be Right Again


The odd ball film maker and pundit, Michael Moore, predicted Trump would win against Hillary in 2016. We all remember the pundit industry consensus was Hillary would win. Moore saw those who thought of themselves as "outsiders" voting in record numbers and for Trump. He was scoffed at but turned out to be right.

Now he is again throwing rocks in the stream of punditry. The stream is saying these off-year elections, which usually are bad for the incumbent President, will be bad for Biden and Democrats. Moore, however, thinks there will be a tsunami of voters sick of lies and dishonesty who will give Democrats a majority in the Senate and maybe in the House. The tsunami will be jacked up by the Roe overturn Moore predicts.

Moore is not just reading tea leaves. He is basing his prediction on actual turnouts we have seen. Kansas for example. Boise, ID, is another. Boise went for Trump by 73%. A School Board election was coming up with a conservative incumbent running for reelection. The incumbent had publicly stated the election of Joe Biden was fraudulent. An 18 year old student defeated him.

Moore believes lies and dishonesty will raise the number of Democratics or those who lean Democrat to vote in huge numbers. He has a theory there is a point at which people are prone to say, "Enough." 

We, of course, will not know if Moore is right until the Midterm Election. What interests me in "The Big Lie" is why Trump went down that particular rabbit hole. Why did he start saying the election was corrupt when the risk was always there he could be found wrong? 

That is, if he was going to make up a story, why not make one up that is not so easy to prove wrong? He could have said, for example, Planned Parenthood secretly gave Biden billions of dollars. While it would have been a lie just as is the election fraud it would not be ridiculed in the same way. He chose a lie which played into his history of lying.

In the meantime, I am enjoying the thought Moore just might be right. 

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