The Fraud Triangle: Why Wouldn’t People Who Kill Babies Also Steal Elections?

 Unlike Dinesh D'Souza, I do not claim to have evidence of organized, widespread election fraud that cheated Trump out of the White House in 2020.

Using these faculties, I have spent the last several years debating with myself whether the election was stolen.

The salient question is not whether Democrats committed election fraud sufficient to put a geriatric dementia patient in the White House.

Rather, there are three key questions: could they? would they? and should they? A model commonly used in organizational ethics and auditing is known as the "Fraud Triangle." Devised by criminologist Donald R. Cressey, the model suggests that for fraud to take place, three elements must be present: opportunity, incentive, and rationalization.

Opportunity pertains to the "Could they" question: Does someone have the ability, position, and power to commit fraud without being caught? Incentive reflects the "Would they" question: Is there a desirable outcome to the fraud? Finally, rationalization gets at the "Should they" question: Can that person point to a supposedly justifiable reason to make the fraud seem like a moral choice? As it turns out, the Democrats had all three in 2020 - and nothing has changed going into 2024.

From any angle, it appears that the Democrats who run our election operations at the state and local levels, particularly in large cities, had more than sufficient opportunity to commit fraud.

In states like Pennsylvania and Georgia, they even changed the rules going into the election to provide greater opportunity for fraud while opposing any legislation that would decrease the opportunity for fraud.

What about an incentive? Might the Democrats, who have spent nine years now years screaming that Donald Trump was a fascist, have been at the very least tempted to cheat? They love to characterize anything they don't like as a phobic, -ism-inspired attack on themselves personally and democracy broadly.

Could the Democrats rationalize committing fraud to win an election? Well, the same people have rationalized killing innocent babies, castrating confused children, and burning down predominantly black cities.

Fraud is much easier to justify than most of their mainstream positions.

Based on their own words and actions, it is clear to me that the Democrats had the opportunity, incentive, and rationalization to steal the last election - and having possibly done it once, there is no reason to assume they wouldn't do it again. 

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