Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.
According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.
In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”
Unfortunately the game isn’t to win the popular vote, it’s to win the electoral vote. You can rack up all the votes in California and New York, it’s only like 6 states that really matter to the outcome. And the Democrats aren’t exactly trying their best to endear themselves to voters in a state like Michigan (not even paying lip service to doing anything to protect civilians in Gaza, not prosecuting the people responsible for the Flint Water Crisis and even accepting their endorsement, constantly claiming the economy is great while people are still struggling, …).
Those people might not vote Trump, but they’ll stay home or vote third party.
Imagine if the democratic states kick him off the ballot. He could get zero votes from 1/3 of the states in the country and still win.
And recent polls have him gaining literally 10 points on basically every demographic versus 2020. How? I have no fucking idea. But he’s up in swing states because black men and Latinos and white people under 35 have apparently decided that Trump is fine all of a sudden.
I’m a Brit. In 2016, my best friend (who’s not a betting man) walked into a betting shop and placed a £50 accumulator on Clinton winning the US election and the UK voting to Remain in the EU.
Dead certs, right?
