On Trump and the end of democracy: I've been right all along, and he's saying it out loud
Yesterday, a reporter tried to get Donald Trump to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost in November. Ha. Ha. In response, Trump lied about fraud, and said this: "There won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." Regarding the election, he says, "I think this will end up in the Supreme Court, and I think it's very important that we have nine Justices."
These are his words.
Look, I've been beating this drum for a long time. I've been pointing you to Bright Line Watch, as one of the political scientists in their sample. Yet even among the political scientists in that sample, I am what you would call and "extreme outlier" in the extent to which I see the end of democracy in the United States.
Yet here's the President of the United States, pointedly saying that he won't transfer power, that he will bring the case to the Supreme Court even without seeing the events of the election itself, and that he's ramming through a Supreme Court appointment, weeks before the election, making a mockery of the McConnell rule (which was never a real rule), in order to have his own judge rule on a case that doesn't even exist so that power won't be transferred.
I've been saying for years-- since The Unmutual Political Blog-- that Trump won't step down.
Are you ready to believe me yet? Are you ready to accept what this means for "democracy" in America yet?
More to come. I guess I'm doing more regular blogging, and more political commentary than I expected with In Tenure Veritas. I'll still do sci-fi, music and things, but I've been on this for a while, and someone needs to say this.
These are his words.
Look, I've been beating this drum for a long time. I've been pointing you to Bright Line Watch, as one of the political scientists in their sample. Yet even among the political scientists in that sample, I am what you would call and "extreme outlier" in the extent to which I see the end of democracy in the United States.
Yet here's the President of the United States, pointedly saying that he won't transfer power, that he will bring the case to the Supreme Court even without seeing the events of the election itself, and that he's ramming through a Supreme Court appointment, weeks before the election, making a mockery of the McConnell rule (which was never a real rule), in order to have his own judge rule on a case that doesn't even exist so that power won't be transferred.
I've been saying for years-- since The Unmutual Political Blog-- that Trump won't step down.
Are you ready to believe me yet? Are you ready to accept what this means for "democracy" in America yet?
More to come. I guess I'm doing more regular blogging, and more political commentary than I expected with In Tenure Veritas. I'll still do sci-fi, music and things, but I've been on this for a while, and someone needs to say this.
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