Mike Lindell Thinks SCOTUS Magically Will Order ‘Redo Without Machines’

I guess America needs a batty uncle. In any event, we’ve got Mike Lindell and he has taken on that role in our lives. We all watch him, enjoying the laugh du jour but feeling somewhat guilty that we don’t get him off the streets before he hurts himself or others. And the fact is, he is hurting others. His quixotic crusade, while it is comical in its hopelessness and lack of grasp of the issue is nevertheless undermining faith in the elections process, which is the cornerstone of democracy.

You can’t tell this to the man. He ludicrously counters that if the situation was reversed and “evidence” of a stolen election by the Republicans had been presented to him instead, he would be doing the same thing. Nobody believes that for a second and its amazing that he can even say it with a straight fact. Lindell maintains that this isn’t about Donald Trump. That’s how deep this mental illness goes with him. Lindell is the living personification of that lyric from the Doobie Brothers song, “What a fool believes, he sees.”

Lindell sees vast dark enterprises at work in the scrolling of his beloved packet captures, even while the people who make their living in that field tell him he’s looking at voting data from Pennsylvania or random information about clothing manufacturers. Lindell is the well heeled sheep that the wolves have fleeced. The great irony of all this is that he blames the media — and this outlet and me, specifically, don’t lose sight of that fact — for pointing out the obvious, that he’s.got.nothing. We are the enemy, not Steve Bannon or Brannon Howse or anybody who has him on their show for shits and giggles and to get ratings.

Jimmy Kimmel played it straight with him. He told Lindell he was worried about him and he asked, “Why is the only person who knows about this huge conspiracy a pillow manufacturer?” That’s where the conversation always collapses. On some level it makes sense to Lindell, and that’s where you get into his faux-Christian grandiosity and then all is lost.

All that said, here is Lindell’s current fantasy.

Mike Lindell says the Supreme Court might say let’s do another election without machines. pic.twitter.com/Wm72isOQbL

— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) July 31, 2021

What this is, is a textbook example of the evils of Trumpism. Donald Trump convinced people that he could do an end run around all existing systems and institutions of our government and accomplish miracles. He could not. He did not. He was the biggest saboteur of democracy that has ever held elective office, much less at that level. But he got an idea rolling, the deadly idea that you don’t need to know anything to effect change, you just need to bluster loudly and long enough until you get your way and then by some magic it will appear.

Trump has avoided consequences his entire life, although it looks like there’s a change to that paradigm coming soon. Lindell has already faced consequences to his business with this mad quest, but he seems hell bent to pursue it to the bitter end.

The question then becomes, what is his bitter end? What will be a low enough bottom for him to hit before he has a moment of clarity, like he did with the crack and realizes he’s being used and to his own detriment? Does he have to run himself out of business, altogether? Or get financially destroyed by Dominion and/or Smartmatic? What will it take?

Only he knows. The rest of us are sitting here on the sidelines watching the show. And it is entertaining political theater, of that there is no question. And maybe that’s Lindell’s payoff. Maybe, like Norma Desmond, he is basking in the adulation of “all those wonderful people, out there in the dark” and the need for the audience and the attention becomes the impetus to keep going, not the purported stolen election itself.

And a big reason that Lindell has the audience is because while everybody knows how the story ends already, with zero change to the status quo, everybody wants to know how the protagonist of the drama is going to take it. We’re all waiting either for a crack up or an epiphany on Lindell’s part.

Maybe we should get the count down clocks running. It won’t be long now.