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No one expected Donald Trump and his supporters to lose the 2020 presidential election graciously, least of all those of us who thought he had a much better chance of winning it than public polling suggested.

This is why, in one sense anyway, I think we should not put too much stock in surveys likethis one, which suggests that only a quarter or so of Republicans “accept” the results of this year’s election. Ever since Democrats and their allies in the media began using this phrase in the fall of 2016 in a bad-faith attempt to secure some kind of worthless pledge from Trump (they would…