The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway
The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway
Dozens of interviews with people deeply familiar or involved with the election process point to a clear consensus: Not only could Trump make a second attempt at overturning an election he loses, he and his allies are already laying the groundwork.
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Very real? So americans don't fight for anything and they will fight to put this grandpa in the whitehouse? Nah
This is FUD. It will not happen.
Mark my words.
Only because the threat is being taken seriously and measures are being put in place to prevent him from doing it.
I'm sorry, dear US-American friends because you have a great democracy but also at the same time one of the most flawed electoral systems of any democratic state in the world...
I’m so demoralized. What parts stand out as a “great democracy” to you still?
Old solid institutions... most democracies are just a few decades old.
We were kinda early to this whole deal. Most of y’all learned from us. And at least we aren’t doing whatever the hell England is with their House of Lords bs
He will try to ensure Harris is denied 270 votes in the Electoral College, sending the election to the House, where Republicans are likely to have the numbers to choose Trump as the next president
This seems like the most likely outcome. System needs reform.
Reform is a compromise. The system needs to be abolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
Overturning a Kamala Harris victory would require an enormous amount of help from Republican power brokers in statehouses and Congress, some of whom spurned him four years ago.
That won't be a problem for them. Republicans spurn only until it's to their personal advantage to un-spurn.
WE KNOOOOWWWW. It’s the worst-kept secret in politics. People in other countries are aware. The birds are aware. It’s part and parcel of the experience of fascism. Never underestimate what pure evil is capable of doing.
Realistically is there anything we can do?
Give him the Mussolini treatment.
Save up so you can buy a bus/train/plane ticket to DC if they try shit. If they do what they're signaling and the legislature fails us it'll be down to mass civil disobedience to keep the country from fascism.
I wish I had a better answer, but they've eroded so many of our institutions.
Grassroots political activism and civic engagement. A sufficiently large victory would help discredit their methods going into the future. In the shorter term, our own legions of poll watchers will provide additional witnesses to offer witness testimony when things inevitably land in court.
He doesn't control the federal government this time, so his chances are worse this time.
His cronies are at all levels of government, including many red state election officials.
I dunno if we've gotta worry about that, because every day, it's looking more and more like Trump is going to win outright, again. No idea how, with all the experience and years to plan for this, we're going to let this fucking cunt finally kill our Democracy. My faith in the United States is completely shattered.
I mean the clear and obvious answer is that the Democratic Party didn't plan for shit. Their plan was running Biden again with their only platform being "We're Not Trump." In the years since January 6th, they've done nothing to safeguard our democracy, while Republicans have fervently planned for a coup.
This seems like a plan to me, but I guess I'm just brainwashed by the blue MAGA.
Also, when the courts are stacked with ReDUMBlican dick suckers, the only real avenue we have is to win another election to keep on bringing these issues to the people who are, somehow, still "on the fence". The traitors are a lost cause.
Can't really get any meaningful repercussions from those traitors when their "king" cunt keeps calling them "beautiful" and having his cohorts in the courts throw out any meaningful punishments...
Yeah half of you guys are fucked, but you should come to Australia it's only a boring level of corruption here. We read up on us politics to see what dumb stuff they're up to for fun
Yea how’s that whole shutting down the coal mines thing going?
Yeah, you guys have a fair bit more than a "boring" level of corruption yourselves, tbh.
Looks at friendly jordies and raises eyebrow.