Quick take: "We" won

 "We won."  First person, plural.  Throughout the hearings yesterday, which I had on in the background, we kept hearing the first person plural pronoun.  As we are all attentive to pronouns now, let's examine, shall we?  It is worth noting that even on the Georgia phone call, Trump did not merely demand that the Sec. State find him the votes necessary to declare him the winner.  He did so, because "we won."  We.  Plural.  Donald Trump was not using "the royal 'we.'"  Rather, this was an interesting rhetorical and strategic choice.  We (nonexistent readers, and I) should recall that Donald Trump is a narcissist.  He thinks only of himself.  There is no "team" in "narcissist."  So why the we from Mr. I Alone Can Fix It?

Replace the "we" with "I."  To a sane person, Donald Trump always sounds like a petulant child, but even more so replacing the "we" with "I."  Someone told him to make the switch, and marvel of marvels, he did it!  Pretty consistently!  By making that switch, it becomes a group effort.  We-- those of us who are a team-- are working towards our common goal.  Us against them, tribalism, all that.  Exploit tribalism through a linguistic switch.

Generally speaking, I am quite skeptical of the power of rhetorical choices.  Language is power!  No, attempts to use language to manipulate are mostly ineffectual, and generally just annoying as shit.  It is simply interesting to note a) that it happened, b) what the alternative would have been, and c) that Trump actually had the self-discipline, or at least showmanship, to stick with it.