Thread: A second Trump term would not just be more chaos & bad tweets.

[Nevilledog]

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One of the most disorienting things about this election is that American democracy is at stake & it really seems like the bulk of the population -- even the bulk of the politically engaged population -- does not understand the stakes.

A second Trump term would not just be more chaos & bad tweets. Much of the first term has been grinding against institutional barriers that are barely holding; in a second term, they would crumble. The damage would be far greater, far faster, than the first term.

It's not exaggerating to say a second term would put future elections -- I mean having them at all -- in question. Law enforcement would become more explicitly a tool of Trump & his party, at all levels. The few remaining competent/knowledgeable professionals would leave.

Whatever restraints law & precedent put on Trump's deregulatory push would crumble in the face of stacked courts; the modern regulatory state would be completely dismantled. What remains of our relationships w/ other democracies would crumble as we edge closer to fascism.

This is all to say nothing of what Covid will look like completely unrestrained, w/ no federal efforts to slow it. The right-wing violence Trump has been steadily encouraging would increase; political opponents would face real physical danger.

I could go on & on. I realize this thread is pointless -- clueful people already know; those who don't know are beyond clues at this point -- but I've got a lot of nervous energy to burn off.

The cops are *on Trump's side*. It's increasingly explicit. Just imagine four more years of this being encouraged & legally defended.

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[Blue Owl]

1. It can't happen. It just can't.

I don't know if myself and the others here can take one more day of his inane, insipid bullshit let alone four more years.

With that in mind, I have a very good feeling tRump will not be awarded four more years of his tyranny!

[brush]

2. A second trump term would bring about a covid-infused fascist state...

with an insane, inept and narcissistic megalomaniac in charge.

I dare say we here on DU understand that.

[stage left]

3. That's why those of who

Understand how serious the situation is are about to go into anxiety meltdown.

[bdamomma]

6. If he steals

the election his sycophants will be discharging their firearms in jubilant in your face fashion. Remember when tRump was happy grabbing women's genitals we will be seeing these sick asses doing more unscrupulous things to follow this sick thug.

If we are victorious, they will be still discharging their guns. Sore losers, or saying it was "rigged".


Anyone you know who has not voted TELL THEM THIS A LIFE OR DEATH ELECTION ON US AND OUR DEMOCRACY.

[Newest Reality]

4. The Police in the Weimar Republic

In 1918, Germany transitioned from a semi-authoritarian empire to the Weimar Republic, a democracy that protected individual rights and limited police power. During the Weimar Republic, police struggled to respond to a rise in crime, political violence, and high unemployment. The Nazis promised to fix these problems, which helped policemen to eventually accept the new Nazi regime in 1933.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-police-from-democracy-to-dictatorship

That's a foreboding shadow in the past and may help explain why LEOs have a penchant for the benefits of of a dictatorship and why they are participating in voter suppression, etc.

Add to that the fact that Qanon's main conspiracy theory is really a rebranded, (almost verbatim) version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (a product of a conspiracy theory itself) which was used to justify atrocities against the Jews, and you can see where we are going with Trump's dark, dystopian future.

[Nevilledog]

5. The same Elders of Zion that the FBI accidentally posted a link to on Twitter.