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- aiop
- politics_no_um
Dozens of interviews with people deeply familiar or involved with the election process point to a clear consensus: Not only could Trump make a second attempt at overturning an election he loses, he and his allies are already laying the groundwork.
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8e3Ri
Overturning a Kamala Harris victory would require an enormous amount of help from Republican power brokers in statehouses and Congress, some of whom spurned him four years ago.
That won’t be a problem for them. Republicans spurn only until it’s to their personal advantage to un-spurn.
He doesn’t control the federal government this time, so his chances are worse this time.
WE KNOOOOWWWW. It’s the worst-kept secret in politics. People in other countries are aware. The birds are aware. It’s part and parcel of the experience of fascism. Never underestimate what pure evil is capable of doing.
Realistically is there anything we can do?
Save up so you can buy a bus/train/plane ticket to DC if they try shit. If they do what they’re signaling and the legislature fails us it’ll be down to mass civil disobedience to keep the country from fascism.
I wish I had a better answer, but they’ve eroded so many of our institutions.
Be ready, especially if you’re on the east coast.
The rednecks are assuming they’re the only ones with balls and nobody else will stand up to them, like all bullies think.
Prove them wrong.
Give em the D!
Give him the Mussolini treatment.
at a personal level, contact the governor and ask them how you can be certain as a voter that trump won’t steal the election like he tried in 2020.
let them know you’re paying attention.
My fucking Governor is in on it
I bet a few of them are.
despite the fuckery, many policy decisions are changed by people calling in and emailing in and telling the elected officials that people are watching them and disagree with what they are doing.
public opinion does make a difference, so on a personal level that’s what we can do.
Grassroots political activism and civic engagement. A sufficiently large victory would help discredit their methods going into the future. In the shorter term, our own legions of poll watchers will provide additional witnesses to offer witness testimony when things inevitably land in court.
I dunno if we’ve gotta worry about that, because every day, it’s looking more and more like Trump is going to win outright, again. No idea how, with all the experience and years to plan for this, we’re going to let this fucking cunt finally kill our Democracy. My faith in the United States is completely shattered.
I mean the clear and obvious answer is that the Democratic Party didn’t plan for shit. Their plan was running Biden again with their only platform being “We’re Not Trump.” In the years since January 6th, they’ve done nothing to safeguard our democracy, while Republicans have fervently planned for a coup.
The electoral college almost guarantees him a win, it was specifically designed to ensure the slave states always kept power, which is why when they finally lost in 1861, the first thing they did was flip the table.
We really needed to let those states leave, would have been the best thing to ever happen to this country, the trash take themselves out.
We shouldn’t have let them leave, we should have kept reconstruction going until 2050.
Yeah half of you guys are fucked, but you should come to Australia it’s only a boring level of corruption here. We read up on us politics to see what dumb stuff they’re up to for fun
Yeah, you guys have a fair bit more than a “boring” level of corruption yourselves, tbh.
Our media is just better at being wilfully ignorant of the corruption unless it’s about the price of milk.
Looks at friendly jordies and raises eyebrow.