sorry to post low hanging fruit, but this kinda shook me a little. imo, a much clearer sign of the decay of the bourgeois state than Trump's comments about not committing to peaceful transfer of power. (which have received significant national media attention.) Trump is a buffoon, one guy who is at risk of being assassinated if he refuses to accept the election results.

but this breakdown in the states is organic, something going with its own inertia. it's the first really frightening sign for me, that our liberal democracy, rickety as it may be, is actually at risk of coming apart. even if Trump loses and goes peacefully, I don't see a Biden admin using federal power to do anything at all about this, and neither will the 6-3 supreme court.

https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1309354062853406720

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Being a president is something you are because you are institutionally deemed to be that. No one will have to "stop" him. He will just stop having that function. He is free to keep claiming he is president, but that has about as much bearing on anything as Guaido declaring himself president of Venezuela, or people insisting Hillary Clinton won.