If Trump wins again, 2020 will be looked back on as the last gasp of the American Republic.
For the last time this isn’t going to happen. Trump cannot seize control over the decentralized electoral process in the country no matter how much he tries.
For the Nth time, Trump is a symptom, not the disease. What will kill the country is the act of electing him - it would be the electoral equivalent of a "divide by zero" error, an open admission that the country does not want rule of law and representative government anymore.
To put it another way, IF it is actually acceptable that Donald Trump serves as President again, then it is
also acceptable if Joe Biden engages in the same conduct Donald Trump did. I.e. anyone saying "Trump is able to legitimately become President" is also saying "It's okay if Joe Biden has an angry crowd seize the RNC and GOP leadership, execute them all and then has a Republican-free Congress declare him President via selective electoral vote counting".
And that is not a functioning democracy, no matter who does it.There is no "out" for the Republicans here, no matter how much they whine about how unfair it is that they ever have to face consequences. What Republicans really want, but refuse to admit, is that they want the benefits of a functioning, representative government and rule of law
for themselves but not for anyone else. And that never works.
Republicans are like a man who wants to shoot the sheriff, pick up that shiny badge and pin it on themselves, and then kick back and relax, secure in the knowledge that no one would dare to shoot the sheriff. It would be laughable if it wasn't so evil.
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