An unconstrained, unaccountable Trump is what some of the more radical Bernie Sanders supporters don’t seem to grasp. In their effort to kneecap Joe Biden’s general election campaign before it’s barely on the ground, and thus helping Trump’s chances, they’re losing sight of the very basic, textbook aspects of what it’d mean to have a president who didn’t really care about or respect the array of constitutional strictures in his first term, and they certainly haven’t stopped to consider how or why he’d become far worse in a second term. All they care about is their agenda, but their agenda will be set back decades if Trump gets the chance to immolate the foundation upon which that agenda would be built. We might not even emerge from the other side of a second term with a traditional small-r republican government -- there’s a very real chance Trump will seize more power, becoming a Putin-style dictator, propped up by Fox News and an unprecedented billion-dollar disinformation campaign, further annihilating institutions and replacing a shared reality with fiction, and all that with a plague.
How does Medicare-For-All and a Green New Deal emerge when the entire system has been crippled? Hell, we won’t even be able to “take to the streets” given the current crisis. Anyone who’s actively undermining the Democrats today is directly or indirectly manifesting this worst-case outcome. Untold death, persecution, and division is just the beginning. We all know from experience that if Trump is given an inch, he takes a thousand miles. We can’t let him have another term because he lacks the character, the personal restraint and the respect for the American system to keep himself from overreaching -- steamrolling everything we hold sacred, and literally no one who will tell him “no.” These are the stakes, and we all have an urgent and unwavering responsibility to weigh these stakes heavily between now and election day. Nothing is more important.
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