Vote Vigilantes

He implies, you infer

   The candidate is urging vigilante monitoring of polling places throughout the nation on Election Day, escalating his warning of election theft through widespread voter fraud and rigging of the election.
   On some level, he must know he has already lost his bid for the presidency, and is now encouraging a violent revolution to overturn the election results.
   He doesn't say that directly, of course. He's a bit too smart for that. But by talking so much about a conspiracy to rig the election and cheat him out what he believes will be his victory, he is careful not to be specific in his predictions of what will happen when he loses.
   To be specific in warning of a violent revolution would be tantamount to treason. Instead, he relies on vague and subtle suggestions, enabling his devoted followers to build on their deep-seated inner fears and prejudices.
   This tactic lets them stoke their own fires of rebellion while leaving him a verbal escape route to where he can plead innocence, claiming he never said any such thing that specifically promoted violence.
   Nevertheless, there are many video recordings where he has indeed been explicit in promoting violence against protesters at campaign rallies. Even when spoken with cop-out openings such as, "I'd like to punch him ..." or "Get him out of here," or "Maybe he deserved to be roughed up," or even "She should be locked up." And there is the vow that, as President, "I would bomb the s**t out of them."
   There is always, however, the implied "but," as in "I would like to but I can't." This enables his devotees to infer that he should, and when elected, he will.
   In the meantime, as Election Day approaches, he increasingly warns that the election is being rigged against him, and urges followers to show up at polling places to make sure what he alleges are many thousands of illegal immigrants who are not registered to vote, turn out to help rig the election against him through voter fraud.
   "There is large-scale voter fraud," the candidate insists, using the present tense.
   Never mind that serious studies have shown that in more than a decade of general, primary, special and local elections where more than a billion votes were cast, there were only 31 allegations of voter fraud. Moreover, since elections are arranged independently by state and local authorities, many of which are of the same Republican Party as the candidate, the idea of a single, massive, nationwide entity conspiring with and dominating all the thousands of voting districts is ... well, you pick a word.
   Nevertheless, the candidate's backers, supporters and surrogates yammer on about collusion among the federal Department of Justice, Big Media and his opponent's campaign managers to cheat him out of his victory.
   But consider this: The idea of every major newspaper, magazine and broadcast station, and all of their individual reporters, have all got together to conspire against him not only ignores the long tradition of competition among journalists to be first with the story, but it also suggests a basic insecurity, if not paranoia, of a person who believes that when he doesn't get his own way in every thing he says and does, that in itself is proof that "everybody's against me"
    Pobrecito.