it "would have plunged America into what I believed would have been tantamount to a revolution"

[kpete]

Judge Luttig says if Trump succeded to get Pence to declare Trump the next president it “would have plunged America into what I believed would have been tantamount to a revolution” and “the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the Republic.”

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[dawg]

1. That whole "succession" thing was kind of a crisis too, don't you think?

[inthewind21]

6. That whole succession thing

caused a civil war. Not a revolution.

civ·il war

noun
a war between citizens of the same country.
"they signed a peace accord ending the country's 12-year civil war"

rev·o·lu·tion


noun
1.
a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
"the country has had a socialist revolution"

[Shipwack]

2. I beg to differ with his honor...

I seem to recall a constitutional crisis over whether a state could leave the Union, or if one man could own another...

[Earthrise]

4. He's an old, conservative, white male - he's spent his whole life avoiding such topics. (eom)

[exboyfil]

3. Which begs the question

Why couldn't Gore have done the same in 2001? He only needed one state. Trump needed to flip three.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Brevity is not in his vocabulary.

[inthewind21]

7. Apparently

revolution and civil war are not in the vocabulary of those attempting to correct the judge.

[unblock]

8. Apparently he's not familiar with the election of 1876

Wherein a number of electors were disputed. Eventually, they gave the presidency to Hayes, at the price of ending reconstruction in the south.

This gave the north a short-term victory but gave the southern racists an enduring triumph that was only partially undone in the 1960s.

But despite the mess and hugely significant outcome, there was little violence and it was nothing like a "revolution".