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.”
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.
I actually don’t like this possibility. If something transpires where ALL states disqualify him from the ballot, fine. But if only blue states do, that’s just going to feed a resurgence of “the election was stolen from him” and I don’t see that going well either.
It’s better than a Trump win in the short term, but for the next 50 years we’ll have to hear about how the blue states “stole” an election from Republicans, and they’ll use it to justify bullshit of one sort or another.
for the next 50 years we’ll have to hear about how the blue states “stole” an election from Republicans
STOP trying to get ahead of their whining idiocy. They will be saying this no matter what. Even if he wins…
STOP trying to get ahead of their whining idiocy.
That’s a funny way to say “stop worrying about giving fuel to the next wannabe that will rise up in Trump’s stead”
This problem didn’t end when Biden won in 2020, and it won’t end when Trump loses in 2024.
If a by the books court proceeding can disqualify him from the ballot in (checks notes) “the democratic states”, then by the books court proceedings should get him off the ballot in at least some red states too.
It would be very myopic to support an outcome where only the blue stats take him off the ballot. It would be taken by the maga crowd (and sympathizers) of “proof” of what he was saying all along.
If he is convicted in Georgia, I think it is unlikely that he will be on the ballot there.
Great. Should anyone bring that up, there’s the little matter of the election that was stolen from Gore.
Yes, but all we do is grumble about that. MAGA has shown they will take illegal measures even with zero evidence. This would certainly look like actual evidence to them.
As I said in another reply -
If a by the books court proceeding can disqualify him from the ballot in (checks notes) “the democratic states”, then by the books court proceedings should get him off the ballot in at least some red states too.
It would be very myopic to support an outcome where only the blue stats take him off the ballot. It would be taken by the maga crowd (and sympathizers) of “proof” of what he was saying all along.
