Trump's Lawyers Are Ready to Subvert the 2024 Election -- But They Don't Want to Go to Jail

[malthaussen]

27. Who will bell the cat?

Here is my thinking on the matter. I'm sure the GOP has numerous extra-legal and marginally-legal schemes in place to dispute/cheat in the upcoming election. I'm sure they have a variety of options on the table: refusal to certify electors, false electors, false voter registration schemes (like the one recently uncovered in Lancaster County, PA), and who knows what all else. Just as in 2021 they had the "brilliant" plan of Mike Pence refusing to accept the electors when it came time for Congress to certify the vote.

Here's the difficulty with such plans: they require someone to act first. Mr Pence in 2021 either lacked the courage or had enough integrity (the two are not mutually exclusive, but I lean towards the first) to take the necessary step and overturn the election. This time around, there are any number of people who will be waiting for somebody else to bell the cat, and then they'll jump on the bandwagon. But who will be the one to take that all-important first step? Frankly, I believe that no one in the Trump camp has that kind of courage. They'll all sit around and wait for someone else to do it first. So nothing will happen.

Yeah, it's speculation, and I'm sure others have different interpretations. We'll find out soon enough, but I am convinced MAGA is mostly a bunch of cowardly blowhards who will never be there when the rubber hits the road. They're all a bunch of weasels.

-- Mal