Doug Wilson<\/a> is an odd duck. He\u2019s sort of a cross between Hillbilly Elegy and A Beautiful Mind. In many ways, he\u2019s a fundamentalist, but with a classical education and bent. A man of letters, but in a William Jennings Bryan sort of way. He\u2019s a man out of time and yet thoroughly modern in many ways. He seems brighter than most fundamentalists, and yet, as obtuse as the worst.<\/p>\n Anyway, the Trump virus, which turns apparently reasonable and intelligent people into tin-foil hat wearing partially sentient beings, has clearly invaded Wilson\u2019s brain. Here<\/a> is the evidence.<\/p>\n Where to start?\u00a0 Let\u2019s just make our way through this tangled heap:<\/p>\n He starts off by admitting he was caught sharing false information on social media and then tries to recover by turning serious. Okay. Lets:<\/p>\n He suggests some things that \u201cshould go without saying.\u201d Well, they do need to be said. And he fails to, because\u2026he can\u2019t, there\u2019s no evidence or facts to support him\u2014just read on.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a partisanship at all costs contingent out there, on both the Trump side and the Biden side. As I observe this, it seems to me that the Trump partisans will believe anything that promises a win, while the Biden partisans will do anything to get to a win. That is where the evidence points.\u201d<\/p>\n He gives no evidence for the one, but he is right the Trump partisans will believe anything. In fact, he\u2019s proving it as he writes. Indeed, not only can we assume this, but the evidence is all around us (just read the briefs filed by the Kraken handlers or listen to their news conferences).<\/p>\n The fact is that Trump, his supporters, and his legal team are the ones trying to win at all costs, even if it means overthrowing an election in which no rational person or court has found any factual or evidential reason to do so. That is where the evidence points.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a real beauty:<\/p>\n \u201cIf the allegations of electoral fraud have any merit, then obviously the Biden all-costers took some massive initiative in this one, and that is what the debate is about. Did massive fraud, from the Biden side, occur? The answer is yes, but lying is lying, whether it is about the votes or about the fraud. But if you allege fraud, in either direction, you shouldn\u2019t expect anyone to take any action on the basis of the allegation alone. It needs to be proven.\u201d<\/p>\n We are told that massive fraud did occur. Wait, did we miss something? How? Where?\u00a0 We are told this needs to be proven. It hasn\u2019t been. Therefore, how is the answer, \u201cyes\u201d to the massive fraud charge? And that was all in one paragraph folks. Oh, I see, the \u201cmassive fraud\u201d is going to be shown to us if we keep reading. Okay, lets:<\/p>\n \u201cYou Can Tell the Election was Lopsided Because the Debate About the Election is Lopsided\u201d<\/p>\n What? Let me get this straight: If the conversation about something turns out to be skewered, then that changes the actual facts and truth of the events in question\u2014the events leading to the conversation?\u00a0 Talk about a logic fail (plus I didn\u2019t realize Wilson was so post-modern).<\/p>\n But wait, the logic fail doesn\u2019t end there. Wilson\u2019s example of what he is talking about is the supposed censorship of social media. He gives an example of a person making a perfectly valid point regarding telling lies about the election but then expecting people to believe us when we talk about our faith.<\/p>\n He then, however, asks what the chances are of a point like this being censored. Well, we would reply, none<\/em>, because it\u2019s not engaging in any lies or conspiracy theories. Wilson counters:<\/p>\n \u201cBut let us say that someone else, a responsible somebody, wanted to reply to him. They wanted to engage with Erick, in order to argue that Dominion Voting Systems is as crooked as a dog\u2019s hind leg, and they wanted to cite facts and figures. The chances run from excellent to outstanding that such a person, no matter who they are, would be bound and gagged and summarily dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n First of all, there are no \u201cfacts and figures\u201d to cite showing those voting systems to be any more crooked than a dog\u2019s leg or Wilson\u2019s logic. So far, no one has presented credible evidence those machines were used in a fraudulent manner.<\/p>\n Thus, as long as a person doesn\u2019t traffic in lies and conspiracy theories, they rarely have to fear social media censorship. See how easy that was.\u00a0 Wilson is comparing a person\u2019s actual truth telling with another person\u2019s potential lies and then crying about the fact the liar might be censored.<\/p>\n His basic argument here is that social media is rigged against a fair conversation or debate. There is no evidence for that other than conservatives whining about their lies being taken down or labeled as such. The problem is not censorship. The problem is people spreading lies and falsehoods. Also, has Wilson heard of Parlor or Facebook? There, he can pretty much spread falsehoods as freely as he likes.<\/p>\n And then this:<\/p>\n \u201cBiden campaigned either like he didn\u2019t want to win, or like he knew he had it in the bag. His campaign was the very definition of \u201cdialing it in\u2026\u201d Why did they nominate somebody that they knew they would have to carry across the finish line? Why did it not seem to matter to them that they would have to carry him across the finish line?\u00a0 Because they knew they had the wherewithal to carry him across the finish line. They did have it in the bag. Everything was all lined up beforehand.\u201d<\/p>\n This is unbridled speculation and conspiracy mongering. It\u2019s just question-begging nonsense:<\/p>\n Wilson offers no real facts or reasoning except claptrap like this, the sort of bunk you hear bored neighbors tell each other over the fence.<\/p>\n What any rational person knows is that Biden campaigned like someone who knew we were in the midst of a pandemic. So, like any intelligent decent person, he didn\u2019t travel much and didn\u2019t hold super-spreader events in complete disregard of his supporters. And, he still won. That\u2019s how bad his opponent was. If we are going to throw around conspiracy theories, I\u2019m more suspicious of Trump\u2019s 70+ million votes than I am of Biden\u2019s 80+ million.<\/p>\n Next:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Coattail Conundrum\u201d<\/p>\n Oh right, so not only was there conspiracy and fraud, but it was of the dumbest sort. They only used it against Trump, but not the entire GOP. Got it. Yep, that sure lends support (?!).\u00a0 I guess, since the GOP is a bastion of ethics and integrity, all the winners will now renounce their winning and say they want a do-over, since only Trump was targeted. We\u2019ll wait. Or, a rational explanation: The election was a repudiation of Trump, but the rest, as Tip O\u2019Neill told us, had to do with all politics being local and the GOP held their own locally.<\/p>\n Oh, and \u201cBenford\u2019s Law\u201d was trotted out. Nope. See here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Finally:<\/p>\n \u201cSo I do not accept the hypothesis that I am a lousy Christian because this whole thing seems more than a little fishy to me. If it is bad for our witness to be taken in by a lie, as per Erick\u2019s thesis above, then let us not be taken in by a lie. Are we allowed to check?\u201d<\/p>\n You are not a lousy Christian because the election seems fishy to you. It only seems fishy because of ignorance. Further, you and people smarter than you have<\/em> checked, raised your concerns, and come up with nothing.\u00a0 Even Trump supporters and partisans, like Barr, have come up with nothing. My goodness, his own people, his own administration, have found nothing that would come close to indicating \u201cmassive fraud.\u201d\u00a0 His \u201celite<\/a>\u201d legal team is a rolling clown show\/moving dumpster fire and has lost almost every single legal effort, because in court you actually have to present evidence.<\/p>\n And by the way Mr. Wilson, we\u2019re all lousy Christians in some form or fashion. But here\u2019s your special lousiness\u2014your grease spot: You keep spreading election\/political related falsehoods, lies, and conspiracy theories even after it\u2019s pointed out to you. And in the future, anyone should most definitely take that into consideration when hearing you speak or write of other matters, spiritual or otherwise.<\/p>\n\n