The basic point isn't new, but I think it bears emphasis.
donald trump is a lifelong pathological liar. It's trivial to prove he lies a lot.
And so it's easy to say he's likely to just tell an idiotic lie about elections he loses.
AND he DID it in 2012, and 2016, and so what could people expect in 2020?
It's hard to describe the level of idiocy, of gullibility and that is not a strong enough word, it's more like you would like for brain damage like someone cannot tell a lie when they say they are holding up 2 fingers as they hold up all fingers, it takes for someone to say, 'ya, trump is telling the truth about the election being stolen, and all the people involved in the elections are in a plot to steal it, and are able to hide it from all scrutiny.'
It wouldn't be much different if trump said he got every vote in the election, while shaking his head no, wearing signs saying he's lying, and with signs above, behind, next to and under him saying he's lying, and two choirs on each side singing 'he's lying', and the person says they think he's telling the truth. It's not like anything our country has ever seen. The funny strange thing is, scratch them and they'll say they don't care if he's lying.