As Trump hints at 2024 comeback, democracy advocates fear a 'worst-case scenario' for the country
A year before the 2020 election, about two dozen constitutional scholars and democracy advocates traveled to Washington to work through a range of scenarios where something goes awry on Election Day.
The countrys political system was being tested by a campaign like no other in modern history, with an incumbent president, Donald Trump, who showed little regard for the democratic traditions and constitutional norms that had guided his predecessors and who repeatedly claimed that the only way he could lose was through rampant fraud.
So the group considered a slew of hypothetical catastrophes: What do we do if a vigilante group takes over a major county tabulation facility and burns it to the ground? What do we do if there is a military coup? But, as Tammy Patrick, a senior adviser to the elections program at Democracy Fund tells it, the experts were too quick in retrospect to dismiss the outrageous as unlikely to happen in a country like the United States.
Either we were not creative enough or the norms of civility our nation has seen over centuries were not reliable enough, said Patrick, a former elections official in Maricopa County, Ariz.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-hints-at-2024-comeback-democracy-advocates-fear-a-worst-case-scenario-for-the-country/2021/09/28/ee357558-1a47-11ec-914a-99d701398e5a_story.html
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Now, why would repubs/evangelicals want Trump who has been innoculated with that 'mark of the devil' vaccine?
TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)What's one more, so long as he's cruel to the black and brown people and owns the libs.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)lees1975
(3,845 posts)So we have to stop the cheating.