He's always been against Trump, but he's really starting to panic about the state of the nation post election. He's making this comment following Trump refusing to give a commitment to a "peaceful" transfer of power yesterday:
My earnest advice to anyone who’s not bound to stay put here in the U.S. because of family or employment ties from which they simply can’t extricate themselves is to think seriously about leaving. And I don’t mean “think seriously of leaving if Trump wins.” I mean think seriously of leaving, period. Because even if he loses by 250 electoral votes, more than 60 million people will have watched him say stuff like this for months, insisting repeatedly that any defeat can only be explained by cheating, and will vote. for. him. anyway.
There’s no coming all the way back from that, even though Trump will eventually leave the political scene one way or another. Anyone who’s willing to look the other way at what he says here is willing to look the other way at much worse, and that’s an enormous population. That’s the reason to leave.
By tomorrow, the right’s anti-anti-Trump faction will have long forgotten this clip, assuming they noted it at all. They’ll be right back to the task of confirming Amy Coney Barrett followed by a glorious November victory in which Trump will once again get millions fewer votes than his opponent and then govern as if his approval rating is 80 percent.
Speaking of which, he explained earlier today why it’s so important for him to have a ninth justice on the Court before November. Interestingly, this wasn’t a concern for the GOP in 2016, when they preferred an eight-person Court to one with Merrick Garland in Scalia’s seat. Trump wants a full house this time, though, for a specific reason: [clip of Trump]
He wants his nominee to be the fifth vote for him in invalidating contested ballots that might give Biden the presidency. He made the same point yesterday in another gaggle with reporters. Why any fan of Amy Coney Barrett would want her placed in that horrendous situation, knowing what it would do to public perceptions of her and of the Supreme Court if she cast that vote — or if she refused to cast it — I can’t imagine.
If it does happen, with Trump’s eleventh-hour bizarro-Garland appointee becoming the deciding vote that assures him a second term, we’ll be in a new era in American history. I’m not trying to be dramatic in saying that. It just is what it is. The country will be ungovernable.
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Would such a supreme Court rule that mail in ballots are illegal or words to that effect.
I can think of three who probably would.
No confidence in either the Supreme court or the political process is a recipe for violence.
Having said that like all big mouths Trump rarely follows through and would the Republicans follow him or tell him to go?
Yes, Homer - I agree that Trump blathers like a tough guy at times, and then doesn't follow through.
What worries people is his brainwashed, heavily armed, rabid supporters, who would get a thrill from showing armed support for him staying in the White House while groundless legal challenges are fought out. There are likely to be counter protests, and the confrontation between both groups could well turn ugly.
If they had an ounce of conscience, Republicans would be telling Trump to pull his head in and stop stoking the risk of violent riots if the election result is not clear for weeks after the election date.
What about the opposite.
What if by some way Trump is allowed to win but subverting the process.
That would lead to riots as people then totally lose trust in the politically system and its institutions.
The USA then becomes a third world country
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