Timothy Snyder: Trump May Use Russian Interference as a Pretext for Canceling Elections

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In his 2017 New York Times bestselling book On Tyranny, Yale historian Timothy Snyder warned that the American people only had one year to stop Donald Trump from causing serious and perhaps irreversible harm to our democracy, as well as other social and political institutions.

Snyder's concerns were centered on how the rule of law, reality and truth, civil and human rights, and the ways Americans interact with each other as members of a shared community would come under assault by Trump and his allies' agenda. He also sounded the alarm about the possibility that the Trump administration could stage its own version of Nazi Germany's "Reichstag fire" as a way of declaring a national emergency in order to consolidate power.

In many ways, Snyder's On Tyranny has proven eerily prescient. How has America endured under Trump's rule? Is there a way to bring Trump's voters and the Republican Party back to normal politics? What does their reaction to Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election reveal about the health of American democracy? Can our be saved, and eventually redeemed?

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43650-timothy-snyder-trump-may-use-russian-interference-as-a-pretext-for-canceling-elections

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An opinion that has a possibility because of the criminals we have in Washington..

[DavidDvorkin]

1. No

This is no different from Republicans warning that Obama would cancel elections. Some Democrats said similar things during the Bush years.

The GOP has no need to try something so drastic and probably destructive to them. It's much easier to pervert the process, using voter suppression and fraud to distort the results in their favor. They'll just keep doing that.

[Sneederbunk]

3. +100

[CanonRay]

2. I got mega-flamed for suggesting such a thing was in the realm of possibility

I just think Trump knows no bounds, he is quite literally capable of anything, and the cowards in the GOP will not stop him.

[NightWatcher]

4. Only if he wants to find out how fast his fat ass will be removed from the building.

[magicarpet]

5. Exercise caution...

Tr-dump may trigger the only remaining action available to end the hijacking of our Democracy ...........revolution with force.

Not sure he would be wise to trigger that sort of mayhem targeted specifically in his direction.

[GulfCoast66]

6. This just makes us look silly

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Right.

[mythology]

8. Utter nonsense.

There is zero chance that happens.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. 9/11 occurred on the day of the NYS primaries.

Soon thereafter, then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani, proposed to delay the mayoral elections in November, allowing him to continue to "steward" the City as it progressed after the tragedy. (It was his last term as mayor as there are term limits for this office.)

Fortunately, that idea was lambasted and refused.

Michael Bloomberg won the November election and took his oath of office as mayor the following January.

If 9-11 couldn't even delay elections, I can't imagine Trump issuing an executive order as it would be unconstitutional.

[duforsure]

10. He'll start a war for cover.

[Oneironaut]

11. As bad as Trump is, hes not going up cancel the elections

This is really alarmist, and possibly written just to be clickbait. I would say it’s more creative speculation than a real concern.

[ProudLib72]

12. Maybe that would be a good thing

Let the orange menace tweet that he's cancelling elections. Let his base believe they don't need to vote. Let everyone else who is sane vote and erase the GOP stain.

[Clarity2]

13. He cant

Because there is an easy response to that: paper ballots.

If anything, I agree with above posters that they will use the same methods as before.
And I think its really up to us to be vigilant with family, friends, IRL and on social media
to counteract the propaganda that continues and keep it from spreading. But I do think
more people are woke than ever and have their skepticism goggles on. Theyre not going to
win. Voter suppression is probably the biggest worry now.

[Downtown Hound]

14. Bunch of crap. n/t