Trending in Canada on X is the slogan “too big to rig.” That last word caught my eye. It’s one of Donald Trump’s favourites. Everything he doesn’t like is “rigged.”

And sure enough, that’s exactly how it’s being used: People are sharing pictures of big crowds at Conservative rallies and saying Conservative support is so huge that the nefarious forces out to rig the election won’t be able to. Or they exhort people to get involved and vote and make the outcome “too big to rig.”

It is, in other words, a manifestation of the cynicism Trump has promoted from the beginning of his political career: If we don’t win, it was rigged.

For a healthy democracy, that is poison.

Let’s not do this, fellow Canadians. Whoever wins, wins. Period. Grumble over your beer but accept it, and have at it again in the next election. Delegitimizing outcomes you don’t like simply because you don’t like them, and can’t imagine they could happen in a fair election, is the path to social disintegration. Let’s not go there.