The Clear Flaw in Trump's Strategy

 

But her e-mails!

Donald Trump appears to be pursuing a two-track approach to losing the election.  One track is to attempt to overturn the election.  The other is to burn it all down on the way out.

Burning it all down includes vetoing the defense authorization bill, threatening to veto COVID relief and/or the general budget and let the government shut down in the middle of a pandemic an economic crisis, failing to respond to an unprecedented security breach, making wildly corrupt pardons, etc. etc.  

The pardons will probably play well with the base and not draw much attention from low information voters. But the rest of it looks to be wildly unpopular, even with supporters.  I get that these actions are an attempt to inflict as much damage as possible so as to hobble his successor.

But they also look like an  implied admission that the attempt to overturn the election will fail.  After all, if it succeeds in overturning the election, Trump will be stuck having to clean up the mess he himself created.