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2. I think normalcy bias has so, so many thinking that an actual military dictatorship can never
Fri May 15, 2020, 01:26 PM
May 2020

happen here.

Trump and the Rethugs SHIT on the Constitution every day. Who is going to stop him if he just says fuck it, martial law via POTUS declaration of a National State of Emergency (which gives him extraordinary powers that so many simply do not know about), no election, etc and most of the Red states and Red run swing states go along (as the States control their elections), or Rump simply just ignores the election results? Come January 20th, if he refuses to leave power and the military and police at all levels do nothing, it is on like donkey kong.

It may not be probable, but it sure as hell is possible. Trump is insanely drunk with power and will do ANYTHING he is allowed to get away with. So much of the US lives in a bubble of complete belief in systemic invincibility/infallibility. My neck of the woods knows better.

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