The question at this point isn’t “Would Trump attempt to cling to power by fraud and violence?” We know he would. The question is “Why on earth would anyone imagine he won’t try again? That he wouldn’t spend four years laying the groundwork to guarantee the second attempt succeeds?”
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We'll never wrestle controls back from him.
He has: tunnels, satellites, Trump, Putin, rockets, shitty cars and trucks, a shitload of kids and must be making more this very second, dozens of body guards, and all of our social security funds and information
depending on how fast that happens, it impedes his ability to organize this, and it casts the shadow of the future over people who go along with it: if you depend on his protection and he dies soon after, you're in trouble
We're all still pretending that we're living in the American republic. That died last July. We need to think about stopping a dictatorship.
Elon Musk has lots of liabilities: he's unpopular, he wasn't born here (constitutionally ineligible and more important, the nativists hate it)
if we're talking about an entirely autocratic leadership transition, those have a distinct tendency to not go smoothly and involve infighting
worst chief justice since Taney
Don’t give up until we’ve exhausted all lifesaving measures. Our democracy doesn’t have an advanced directive. 1/
and probably for disorder around the leadership transition as a decaying but narcissistic trump refuses to settle the dispute
Making him 'muchly' the most popular president ever.
A while ago I wrote we are weeks away from living in a dictatorship.
With each day we see the surrender (GOP) or defeat (Musk) of institutions. The courts can't save us.
People are in denial because accepting the demolition of the government is too painful a concept.
So we have to ask: what do we do? If the danger is only growing, what action(s) is suitable?