Bad Democrat

When I just heard about it on the news, I thought it meant that President Trump was calling for him and his own to determine the outcome of the election. He’s calling for the US government (instead of the states’ governments) to facilitate the elections. That would be bad, as we trust the states and it’s, you know, in the Constitution. But not the same as saying the national government should determine the election, which is how it’s being reported/implied when they say “nationalize the election”. It’s like saying that our laws don’t count because we are currently in a Trump presidency. Why are reporters this sure that he would rig the election? I would think they would go into the specific states he contests (he said Minnesota) and say, did they do anything wrong? What would be the way a state could do an election wrong? I want to stop here because someone could jump in and say that I’m posing that it’s no big deal for a presidential administration to run elections when that president has indicated that he’s not okay with losing (and has been likened to authoritarians by others). I’m not saying it’s not a big deal at all. I’m saying that the line of questioning in response doesn’t quite stack up. I’m starting to feel like journalists don’t think that Donald Trump is as enormous a threat to democracy as they are claiming. They’re skipping some steps on the line of questioning, and jumping straight to a conclusion that Trump is an illegal actor and of course he and others would actually go ahead and rig the election that the US government facilitated. Why don’t they want to prove it.