If it actually is the worst case scenario Dems are scaring about then Americans need to learn to fight.
This is a great point and one I don't think gets enough attention in general. One way in which it comes up for me is: what exactly are dems planning to do if Kamala wins on paper, but Trump challenges the results and rabble rouses people against them? Are they actually willing to send cops and military, if necessary, to put him behind bars, knowing that could enrage his fanatical base further? Why haven't they put him behind bars long before now, for denying the results once before, or for any number of offenses?
We are supposed to believe a guy like that is simultaneously a huge threat to "democracy" and will be... stopped via voting. With what institutions, I don't know. They could have invented any number of reasons to throw the book at him years ago. They could have cracked down on the kind of people they claim are such a threat. Instead, they're sitting on their hands as if authority is derived only from a ballot box. They want us to believe "democracy is at stake," but are unwilling to act like it is and will even rush to condemn any attempt on the guy's life.
It makes no sense if Trump is a real, existential threat to the current system. On the other hand, it makes a kind of sense if the power brokers don't view him as one and only view him as a different flavor of it, who can be controlled like any other president.
This is a great point and one I don't think gets enough attention in general. One way in which it comes up for me is: what exactly are dems planning to do if Kamala wins on paper, but Trump challenges the results and rabble rouses people against them? Are they actually willing to send cops and military, if necessary, to put him behind bars, knowing that could enrage his fanatical base further? Why haven't they put him behind bars long before now, for denying the results once before, or for any number of offenses?
We are supposed to believe a guy like that is simultaneously a huge threat to "democracy" and will be... stopped via voting. With what institutions, I don't know. They could have invented any number of reasons to throw the book at him years ago. They could have cracked down on the kind of people they claim are such a threat. Instead, they're sitting on their hands as if authority is derived only from a ballot box. They want us to believe "democracy is at stake," but are unwilling to act like it is and will even rush to condemn any attempt on the guy's life.
It makes no sense if Trump is a real, existential threat to the current system. On the other hand, it makes a kind of sense if the power brokers don't view him as one and only view him as a different flavor of it, who can be controlled like any other president.