06-26-2020, 12:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2020, 05:06 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
I did a for laughs version of this a while ago. I don’t put it past Trump to try. Right now, though, the election would have to be vaguely close for him to be taken seriously at all, and the polls are not looking that way. The people are with reforming the violent racist police. They have until this point been favoring the scientific governors over the happy talk governors significantly, which I read as an approval to date of stringent precautions. The infection rate in many parts of the country are going way up, and should be rather decisive by the time the election comes around. The reopening the country to look good economically is not looking good if done before limiting the number of people infected first and having many test kits available.
Basically, Trump took the wrong side of the crisis issues. The progressive values traditionally wipe out the old conservative values come a crisis. Just ask the royalists, slaveholders or isolationists. It is looking no different this time.
And I don’t see Trump as one to admit a mistake, to radically change course. He is apt to ride his presidency into the ground. The problem is that he is apt to run the country into the ground too for good measure.
I cannot see the military taking orders to blatantly use force against the American People. Trump may think he has loaded the Supreme Court, but Roberts has always been willing to vote with the liberals and Trump’s appointee went against him recently. I could see Biden setting up shop in Camp David, giving Trump enough rope to hang himself if he wants to.
But mostly, the fact checkers are still with the traditional media while Trump lies. An attempt to seize power would be a big risk to take when there are a lot of criminal offenses outstanding for Individual #1.
I suspect trying to see if a self pardon works is the more likely threat. It would not surprise me if after the election, he throws pardons around freely for any people that manage to stick around.
Basically, Trump took the wrong side of the crisis issues. The progressive values traditionally wipe out the old conservative values come a crisis. Just ask the royalists, slaveholders or isolationists. It is looking no different this time.
And I don’t see Trump as one to admit a mistake, to radically change course. He is apt to ride his presidency into the ground. The problem is that he is apt to run the country into the ground too for good measure.
I cannot see the military taking orders to blatantly use force against the American People. Trump may think he has loaded the Supreme Court, but Roberts has always been willing to vote with the liberals and Trump’s appointee went against him recently. I could see Biden setting up shop in Camp David, giving Trump enough rope to hang himself if he wants to.
But mostly, the fact checkers are still with the traditional media while Trump lies. An attempt to seize power would be a big risk to take when there are a lot of criminal offenses outstanding for Individual #1.
I suspect trying to see if a self pardon works is the more likely threat. It would not surprise me if after the election, he throws pardons around freely for any people that manage to stick around.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.