Trump Rally highlights - scary rhetoric: "They will strip Americans of their Constitutional rights"

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11. I had a disturbing thought today

and reading this just confirms what I fear may happen.

Envision Trump losing in 2020. Yes, easy to do, no doubt. But does he go away quietly like all of the other former Presidents in modern times? Does he undertake humanitarian ventures, perhaps in combination with a former President of the Democratic Party?

I think we all know the answer to that, but vaguely. What if he starts charging that the election was stolen from him, and he stokes up his followers to push for a Confederate States of America, part two? The one thing he's been excellent at is dividing us, and another one and a half years gives him more to continue to do so, in what will be one of the most divisive elections in modern times.

His siren song to the reich wing will be hard to resist. He'll tell them to imagine having their own country, where abortion is always illegal, same-sex marriages will be null and void, and undocumented immigrants will be dealt with even more harshly than today. No more welfare, and low taxes on business, with "jobs for all". What's in it for him? Well, a CSA 2.0 would have no troublesome amendment that limits him to two terms, and he can be President for Life.

The targeted states for a CSA 2.0 probably have enough agricultural, mining, and industrial base to survive on their own, without the non-targeted states resources. Would citizens from blue states agree to being drafted to fight a war to keep the secessionists in the United States? Perhaps not.

We would see migrations of progressive people in red states to blue ones, and vice-versa. That would more fully polarize the two factions. Migration was not terribly easy in the 1860's, but it is considerably more so today.

We've already seen threads about how Trump would not leave the White House voluntarily even after two terms, and they have some credibility. About the only thing that would prevent him from starting a CSA 2.0 is either his death in office, or serving two terms and his VP wins election in 2024. But that would exact a very heavy price on this country.

Keep that in mind when you want to call a red-stater a deplorable, or boycott a chicken restaurant, or a state when it comes to filming movies, and any number of other things that divide us. Unity after Trump will be an extremely difficult task for the next Democratic president, and Trump will do everything in his power to undermine that, both while in office, and when out of it.