• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Trump too will try another coup, and I think it’s not unfair to expect that coup

    Of course he will try.

    One of the differences this time is that he doesn’t have the power to delay the deployment of defensive resources.

    And nobody is dismissing it as impotent bluster this time.

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      3 months ago

      The problem is how do you handle house representatives that refuse to do their job in good faith? The rules say that the president is determined a certain way, what do you do when those rules are used to defy the will of the people? They’ve already caused presidents who have lost the popular vote.

      The defensive resources will come into play after that question is answered and it’s impossible at this point to tell which side will benefit from them.

      I just hope that there aren’t many people that oppose Trump on principle but ultimately think that if the rules say “hand over the country to the fascists”, that’s the right thing to do.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah but what he does have now is a shit loaf of people who now have the jobs of the people who stopped falsifying election results on the state level last time. Most of then either moved on or relented under the pressure of threats. John Oliver had a nice piece about it some two years back