It’s necessary.
Imagine, if you will, they ONLY fight this in the court of law and ignore the court of public opinion. And they win.
How many cities do you think would burn?
At least this “prepares” the left for the bad news, if it comes. Sure, there will be looting and rioting, but much less.
I get that.
I just think back to Horowitz, Durham, Barr and whatnot. There’s always this idea that the good stuff is right around the corner. Hey, maybe we missed it this time, but “we’ll get ‘em next year!” kind of stuff.
Clearly, we have mere weeks to resolve this. I’m sure there is a true legal effort going on behind the scenes, and I do expect it to be successful. And I do understand the necessary PR aspects of this. But I worry that any sort of business-as-usual and let’s-go-slow-so-that-everything-is-perfect approach may not be in our interests at this moment in time.