Yes Klavan let me down horribly. I still have my email I sent to him after the election was obviously stolen and his insulting response. Never listened again.

Edited to include email and his response…wow…this just brings me right back to those early days…

Dear Mr. Klavan with an “A”,

I have shared your podcasts and told so many about you, especially your wise and measured take on things. As people listen to someone talk, it’s fair to say that people think they “know” you even if it is not literally true.

That is why I’m shocked at your take on this election. Do you believe fraud is possible? Did you know there was fraud, here and there...Chicago...Philly. But it was always small, not widespread, or not enough to make a difference. It probably was the case this year as well, but not widespread, just “regular”.

Obama said: “Elections have consequences.”

When Norm Coleman lost his Minnesota senate seat, leading to a 60 seat supermajority for the Democrats and ushering in Obamacare— was the possibility of fraud not a big deal then? Obviously not enough to fight for. Consequently my insurance premiums are 200% of my mortgage.

Premiums don’t matter to federal workers like elected representatives who have generous, paid for health insurance and care. Both Republicans and Democrats (but Democrats especially) are responsible, and I get it—it’s part of the plan to push us towards single-payer heathcare. Policies like that strangle the middle class in the short term, and increase suffering in the long term as people experience restrictions, wait times, and eventually are told their life is no longer “productive” enough to to warrant the health care dollars spent. Instead of savings or Investment or buying a new car, we’ll be spending $35,000 on medical insurance. But, hey, some cheating here or there doesn’t make any real difference.

Do you understand the intensity of the anger of us nobodies towards a system that can impact our lives so drastically? We have supported Republicans for 30 years—protested over health insurance in DC, sent money and donated to conservative groups and magazines. Then we finally win and we are not ready to go with “Repeal and Replace”? Smoke and mirrors.

Now the stakes are FAR higher. This is a fight for the very nature of our country. There is evidence of multi-layered cheating. High-volume, “pristine” ballot drops with perfectly-filled out (i.e. printed and copied) Biden votes, dead voters in the tens of thousands, harvested ballots from the elderly and infirm, bunches of ballots run through the machines repeatedly. There are crowd-sourced statisticians, mathematicians and engineers —pouring over posted data from the NYT (via the program Edison) and recognizing anomalies. USB drive uploads In machines the night before Election Day without machine re-certification, water pipe bursts that never actually occurred, physical harassment and exclusion of poll watchers, and covering up windows during the unprecedented STOP in counting.

To dismiss the small and the big “evidence” out of hand, to explain it away as conspiracy theories which “move us from grief to anger” is evidence of your personal confirmation bias...Trump’s personality is abrasive, and that’s why he lost.

If you had been searching for evidence of Trump supporter’s motivation and energy, not just consuming reports from ‘respectable sources‘, but searching for video and photographic evidence of the rallies, you would have seen the groundswell of support for Trump—the support of regular people who have felt like chumps for years.

We pay our debts, educate ourselves and our children, work hard, play by the rules, and are both despised by the left and taken advantage of by the right. Trump is the only president since Reagan to give us “deplorables” a seat at the table, or at least get us in the room.

But now, these MILLIONS of Trump supporters are all recognizing that this is the hill to die on. This is far bigger than just Trump. Uninvestigated anomalies, in specific counties and in amounts sufficient to flip battleground states is inherently unserious. Critically thinking adults should see that these reports and affidavits deserve investigation and scrutiny. I’m aghast that there are so many of our fellow travelers think Trump is an egotistical poor loser and “we’ll win in the midterms”. There will be no midterms. If the system is rigged, elections—like airport security— becomes kabuki theater. Voting, like masks and removing our belts and shoes before flying—will be farcical and virtue signaling, but utterly pointless.

To dismiss this boiling anger in the country is to miss what is happening in the culture. Isn’t that your specialty?

Sincerely,

A Newly Registered Independent

His response:

I do not in any way dismiss your disappointment or your anger. I feel it too. I prayed for Trump to win. But you don't always get what you want. The vote followed 2016 patterns almost exactly. If it was fraud, it was a fraud of impossible genius. Rudy and Jenna make claims at hearings that they do not make in courts of law. The reason for this is that there are legal penalties for making false statements to a judge. When Rudy was asked in court if Pennsylvania was fraud, he said, "This is not a fraud case." That's why judges, including conservative Trump-appointed judges, have thrown the case out. The legal team might win a constitutional question in PA before the Supreme Court, but it won't change the outcome (so the court probably won't hear it). It's frustrating, but life includes losses as well as wins. The fight continues.

Yes Klavan let me down horribly. I still have my email I sent to him after the election was obviously stolen and his insulting response. Never listened again.