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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
We all did?
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Sigh... no. We were all concerned about a range of possible outcomes that went from "Biden wins easily, Trump sulks and doesn't do anything to calm down his insane supporters but power transfers without any real incident", to "Trump declares victory and tries to undermine the process and stirs his supporters into an angry mob that does terrible things like attacking the Capitol", to "Trump declares victory and attempts to undermine the process and the judiciary decides to go along with it".
The fact that the real-world outcome was neither the best case nor the worst case scenario, but something in between, doesn't mean people were wrong to worry about the possibility of the worst case scenario. It also doesn't mean they thought it was somehow guaranteed.