Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part 1
Chapter 1 November 3, 2020: The Greatest Fraud in History!! 3
Chapter 2 Trump Rejects Defeat 7
Chapter 3 Trump Rejects Victory 11
Chapter 4 Elections the Authoritarian Way 13
Chapter 5 The Peculiar Beauty of Conceding Defeat 19
Chapter 6 So Much for Our Norms 23
Chapter 7 Lies, Damn Lies, and Meta-lies 29
Chapter 8 The Sweet Air of Legitimacy 33
Chapter 9 Bootstrapping Meta-lies into Institutional Realities 39
Chapter 10 The System Cannot Protect Itself 43
Part 2
Chapter 11 The Electoral College Revisited, Alas 49
Chapter 12 A Constitutional Anachronism 57
Chapter 13 Catastrophe No. 1: Faithlessness 61
Chapter 14 Catastrophe No. 2: Hack Attack 81
Chapter 15 Catastrophe No. 3: Big Blue Shift 93
Chapter 16 Can the Crisis Be Contained? 105
Chapter 17 Republicans Reject Democracy 111
Chapter 18 The Only Check 115
Acknowledgments 119
Endnotes 121
Index 135
About the Author 147