At times, Mr. Trump's railing-against-his-fate outbursts seem like a story straight out of William Shakespeare, part tragedy, part farce, full of sound and fury. Is Mr. Trump a modern-day Julius Caesar, forsaken by even some of his closest courtiers? (Et tu, Bill Barr?) Or a King Richard III who wars with the nobility until being toppled by Henry VII? Or King Lear, railing against those who do not love and appreciate him sufficiently? How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless electorate.

"This is classic Act V behavior," said Jeffrey R. Wilson, a Shakespearean scholar at Harvard who published the book "Shakespeare and Trump" this year. "The forces are being picked off and the tyrant is holed up in his castle and he's growing increasingly anxious and he feels insecure and he starts blustering about his legitimate sovereignty and he starts accusing the opposition of treason."

Others hear echoes from the East, recalling autocrats in the far reaches of the former Soviet Union barricading themselves in presidential palaces while furiously spinning out enemies-of-the-people propaganda to justify holding onto power after popular uprisings.

"If there are these analogies between classic literature and society as it's operating right now, then that should give us some big cause for concern this December," said Mr. Wilson, the Shakespearean scholar. "We're approaching the end of the play here and that's where catastrophe always comes."

I'm gonna be eating popcorn and loving every second of the show.

There is nothing entertaining about Trump falsely riling up millions of Americans into believing that a wholly fair election return was fraudulent simply because he didn't win. Of course this flies in the face of every other Republican who won their races up and down every ballot in the very same states that Trump himself lost.

Trump is trying to foment open and possibly violent rebellion in this nation simply to serve his personal interests - none of his machinations having anything to do with defending or protecting the Constitution or this nation. He is actively trying to destroy the publics' belief in fair accounting of legal ballots and most of his ire is directed toward REPUBLICAN officials who know that no systemic fraud occurred, yet still are now fired, pilloried, and threatened as a part of Trump's false grievance.

Once Trump leaves the White House on January 20th, he will not remain quiet, he will daily lead a "shadow government in exile" while making sure that the Republican Party does not allow Joe Biden to accomplish a single thing on his agenda to improve things for this nation's suffering people. The damage Trump will cause is incalculable as is the final number of Americans who will lose their lives due to his gross mismanagement of America's coronavirus pandemic response.

There is nothing to "love" of this upcoming travesty that Trump is planning on broadcasting that will undermine the very law and Constitution he swore to uphold.

Bill,

I don't know how many times the protocols for both verifying and then counting mail-in ballots has been posted totally discrediting your "feelings". You have no facts, just stupid speculation built upon your own ignorance. Ballot verification for mail-in ballots is just as stringent as it is for in-person voting - including voter ID requirements depending upon the state. Multiple states have been conducting all their elections by mail for years and years with no problems and you keep ignoring these facts because you want to cling to the fiction invented by your complete lack of understanding the process.

Some states even require 3rd party affidavits to accompany mail-in ballots on top of copies of state-approved ID - basically a third person legally vouching that the voter is who they say they are. That is never done with in-person voting. Depending upon the state either multiple people of both parties (or independent persons) first check mail-in ballots to make sure that the address matches the voter's registration or ballot request.

Then the ID requirements are verified by multiple people simultaneously for every single voter who submits a ballot. Then it takes multiple people (or scanners in some states) to match voter signatures on file and if one of those people (or the machine) do not think the signatures match, those ballots are set aside for further verification. They become part of the "curing" process you may have heard being mentioned. Voters are contacted that their ballots have not yet been accepted and that they need to personally contact the voting board to give them more information or to verify yet again that they alone did submit the disputed ballot. Then and only then is it counted. So again, another level of verification that in-person voting doesn't have.

These processes are repeated for every single mail-in ballot before they are separated from their envelopes and the ballots then placed in queue to be tallied. And this is for each and every single ballot. You cannot and will not ever be able to explain how this process can be corrupted by fraud in any appreciable quantity where it can effect most races on most ballots. And you'll never be able to square the circle of logic that dictates if such a widespread fraudulent attempt to affect one race toward a party's candidate was attempted it would only make sense to do the same for every race on those affected ballots. No such efforts have ever been discovered anywhere at any time but for a number of ballots manipulated in North Carolina by Republicans who were caught.

You are not right and we're tired of you repeating your ignorance over and over without recognizing the truth. Mail-in ballots are as secure- if not more so - than in person voter fraud attempts, and both of them are impossible to scale in large enough quantities to effect all but the smallest of races because it can only be done one vote at a time. Even if many ballots were stolen, how would the thief know the intended voter's birthdate or last 4 of SS, or whatever personal information - including a reasonable facsimile of the voter's signature - required to accompany the ballot by the state? They don't, and no schemes to commit widespread voter fraud ever occur because the safeguards protect both the rights of legal voters while assuring others the impossibility of mass fraud one vote/voter at a time.

I've noticed people insist on confusing the usage and administration of Absentee and Mail-in ballots.

No, yet again it is you who fail to understand that absentee ballots are just one classification of mail-in ballots - otherwise they are the same - the ONLY DIFFERENCE being absentee voters claim that they would be unable to cast their in-person ballot on Election Day, hence they are absentee.

Mail-in votes are the complete class of ballots received through the mail regardless of whether the voter can or cannot physically cast a ballot in their voting district on Election Day.

Depending upon the state, absentee ballots must be requested by the voter while in some states, mail-in ballots are sent to each registered voter without them having to request one, and in most others voters must request a mail-in ballot in order to receive one.

There is zero physical difference between an absentee ballot and a mail-in ballot outside all absentee ballots are mail-in ballots but not all mail-in ballots are absentee per definition explained above.

And to further elaborate, in many cases absentee ballots are for those who have a specified reason for NOT being able to cast an in-person ballot during the election voting period. Basically, one needs a state-accepted excuse in order to receive an absentee ballot.

Many states offer mail-in ballots to voters as simply another way (or in 5 states, the ONLY way) of voting without each voter needing an approved reason for voting by mail instead of in-person.

Trump isn't planning on going away, he's planning on continuing to try and dominate news cycles - this time pillorying anything and everything that Joe Biden tries to accomplish - while he demands that elected Republicans agree with him that Biden is an illegitimate President and the GOP is duty bound to oppose him on every issue or those who won't will suffer his wrath as well as traitors to Trumpism.

What's headed our way on January 20th is something we've never seen nor contemplated in our lifetimes. We're going to have an ex-President who'll both announce his 2024 campaign while declaring himself the legitimate leader in exile for the next four years - unless his legal problems slow him down - and he won't have any restrictions upon what he mainlines into media bloodstream. He'll be even more unhinged than he has been during his presidency.

Trump is in it for Trump and he doesn't who or how many will suffer as long as he gets what he wants.