2020 US election - The fat lady is warming up in the wings

[robkelk]

We all want it to be over... except for one petulant spoiled brat who insists on dragging things out.

You are forgetting the elephant in the room: the longer he drags things out, the more bank he makes from his deluded followers. The last I heard was that he was at $200 million and counting.

There is literally no benefit for him in conceding, and no downside in dragging things out. Except for shame and he has none of that.

There are plenty of downsides to dragging things out - your country's deteriorating reputation on the world stage, the growing divisiveness in your federal political system that makes it impossible for emergency measures to be instituted to save lives, the promotion of personal opinions above actual facts, and so on.

And one that's much less important because it only affects one person: he's showing that he can't be trusted to abide by the terms of a deal that he made. Alas, that's probably the only one he cares about if he cares about any of the downsides at all.