I’m throwing down a radical notion here — a way for We The People to get back what was STOLEN from us — the outcome of Election 2016 that we voted for.

If the Rule Of Law is a “thing” then Donald Trump cannot be POTUS — not the legitimate POTUS. The Rule Of Law says very clearly that you cannot CHEAT and “become POTUS”. If you CHEAT, it DISQUALIFIES your run. You cannot therefore, by definition, “WIN”.

Cheaters cannot “win” — not if the Rule Of Law is operating at full 100% functionality. Therefore, if we accept that 1) Donald Trump & the GOP CHEATED — in ways profoundly ILLEGAL — in order to win election 2016, then 2) Donald Trump & the GOP did not “WIN” election 2016. Their “win” never happened. They STOLE the actual outcome — not in some abstract way — but LITERALLY — from us — from WE THE PEOPLE.

The result we voted for — a more progressive America — was not only denied us, but it’s diametric opposite was, instead, forced down our throats by the very people WHO’D STOLEN THE TRUE RESULT. When someone steals your car — and they catch him — they make him GIVE THE CAR BACK. Because it’s not his — and never was his.

The results of an election can be no different. Just as you cannot reward a car thief with the thing he stole, you cannot reward ELECTION THIEVES with the thing THEY stole — the election’s actual outcome. Even voting them out doesn’t solve the problem because the results of the previous stolen election continue to bear the stolen election’s fruit: legislation the electorate DID NOT WANT and JUDGES the electorate would NEVER have approved of. The will of the people is being violated willfully and repeatedly.

We The People have skin in this game and a dog in the hunt. Legally speaking, we have “standing” to sue Donald Trump & the Republican Party in a CIVIL COURT for damages because they violated our electoral will and STOLE the desired outcome of an American election.

This description of “preponderance of evidence” comes from the Cornell University Law School’s web site: “Preponderance of the evidence is one type of evidentiary standard used in a burden of proof analysis. Under the preponderance standard, the burden of proof is met when the party with the burden convinces the fact finder that there is a greater than 50% chance that the claim is true. This is the burden of proof in a civil trial.

That’s my radical idea. We The People sue Trump & the GOP in civil court. We sue em for a buck cos it ain’t about the money. It’s about getting to the Truth about what they’ve done and what they’ve done TO us. In a civil trial, our burden would be 50% — get past 50% and we win our point and win our case.

Even our gun shy press might catch on (finally) that the smoking gun needed to prove (in a court of civil law) that Trump and the GOP are corrupt to their marrow and traitors on top of it is actually a smoking preponderance of evidence.

Again — the point isn’t money (hell, we’ll go after Trump & every stinking, corrupt Republican separately) — it’s getting back our stolen car. In our case, our stolen election results.

We could use the civil process to leverage our way into the criminal process — by using the civil process (and its discovery) to reveal the full extent of the crime. Having brought vital evidence out into the open, We The People can turn it all over to the criminal courts for prosecution and disposal. Think we the people can’t clear the 50% preponderance hurdle?

Have you read ANY of the evidence we already have? Imagine how easy this will be when we start getting ahold of all the stuff Trump & the Republicans have been clutching to their chests so fearfully.

President Obama was absolutely right when he said — as he left office — that no one would come to save us from this shitshow except us. We The People need to step up right now. We need to see the evidence we already have — understand what it means — and react. Even before the trial gets up to speed, the preponderance of the evidence buries Trump and the Republicans in tons of criminal behavior.

We need to step up and pull the trigger on prosecuting them all. We owe it to ourselves.