We have all seen enough of Donald Trump to have his measure: He will never concede a loss on Election Day.
The Atlantic takes a lengthy look.
Trump’s state and national legal teams are already laying the groundwork for postelection maneuvers that would circumvent the results of the vote count in battleground states. Ambiguities in the Constitution and logic bombs in the Electoral Count Act make it possible to extend the dispute all the way to Inauguration Day, which would bring the nation to a precipice.
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Let us not hedge about one thing. Donald Trump may win or lose, but he will never concede. Not under any circumstance. Not during the Interregnum and not afterward. If compelled in the end to vacate his office, Trump will insist from exile, as long as he draws breath, that the contest was rigged.
The first — only, really — line of defense is an annihilating defeat of Trump, a defeat so epochal that even the most rabid partisan will be unwilling to disgrace himself by pretending Trump prevailed.
The rejection of Trump must be unambiguous … and final.