The Trump Conspiracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Antebellum pro-slavery radicals spoke freely of secession and violence; Democratic Party paramilitaries planned their attacks on Reconstruction governments in public view; and the men who codified segregation into Jim Crow did so in the open. Bad actors, in other words, do not always make their plans in secret.
When people plot to do wrong, they often do so in plain sight. To the extent that they succeed, it is at least partly because no one took them as seriously as they should have.
And so it goes with the plot to restore Donald Trump to power over and against the will of the voters. The first attempt, prefigured in Trump’s refusal in 2016 to say whether he would accept the results of the presidential election, culminated in an attack on the Capitol this year, broadcast on camera to the entire world. Since then, the former president and his allies have made no secret of their intent to run the same play a second time.
Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser and White House official, hosts a popular far-right podcast where he has urged his listeners to seize control of local election administration. “It’s going to be a fight, but this is a fight that must be won. We don’t have an option,” he said in May. “We’re going to take this back village by village … precinct by precinct.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/trump-bannon-2024.html
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... he has done a lot in plain sight - his supporters like the behavior. They approve of Russians helping spy on and defeat Hillary. They like not paying taxes and cheating to get ahead. they think women should be pushed around and even "like it every now and then." The men would call porn stars, too, if they could... they like making fun of handicapped people; it makes them feel BIG. They think they have "better genes" because they are mostly white... they want no regulations, because they want to do that they want and everyone else can ---- ---. They LOVE their Donald!
