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Mike 03

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4. I couldn't have said it better.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 05:24 PM

Nov 2020

I've never said the "coup" would succeed. My question all along is: How much damage to American credibility, stability, customs, norms and institutions are we willing to accept by pretending this isn't happening?

If the outcome is acceptable, did nothing happen? A lot is happening. I'm not waiting for something to happen. I'm watching something happen.

It's also terribly unfair to Biden and Harris.

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Timothy Snyder: Don't Underestimate Where This [Trump] Can Go [View all] Grasswire2 Nov 2020 OP

There is a lot of discussion here about this issue - cilla4progress Nov 2020 #1

I couldn't have said it better. Mike 03 Nov 2020 #4

We still have three things working in our favor... Binkie The Clown Nov 2020 #2

That's only if he fails, and has to continue his message from out of power... regnaD kciN Nov 2020 #6

IMO odds are ven he will pull it off. what happens then, who knows. I don't see much msongs Nov 2020 #3

I was just about to post this same article, myself. I think it's the best, most clear-eyed analysis scarletwoman Nov 2020 #5

Timothy Snyder is the expert, really. Holocaust historian. Grasswire2 Nov 2020 #7

And "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" Mike 03 Nov 2020 #10

We need a plan for fighting this - but it seems it may already be too late. scarletwoman Nov 2020 #11

absolutely Grasswire2 Nov 2020 #13

one of the hallmarks of this administration is that they tell us how they will break wiggs Nov 2020 #8

More often than not, we would be much closer to reality if we simply ASSUME the wiggs Nov 2020 #9

Wait till they find out who they are really dealing with? Brainfodder Nov 2020 #12