“The next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. Thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect. The winner will be declared the loser. The loser will be certified president-elect.
The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means. Given the opportunity, they will act. They are acting already. Who or what will safeguard our constitutional order is not apparent today. It is not even apparent who will try. Democrats, big and small D, are not behaving as if they believe the threat is real.”
In a new cover story for The Atlantic, anchoring a special issue of the magazine devoted to American democracy in crisis, staff writer Barton Gellman demonstrates with urgent clarity that Donald Trump, abetted by a complicit Republican Party, is gaining strength for a second attempt to seize office, and that he is better positioned to subvert an election now than he was in 2020. By pushing the Big Lie and enforcing its acceptance by the Republican Party, Trump has built the first American mass political movement in the past century that is ready to fight by any means necessary, including violence. January 6 was practice. Today, Gellman writes, there is a “clear and present danger that American democracy will not withstand the destructive forces that are now converging upon it.” READ ARTICLE How Donald Trump Could Subvert the 2024 Election - The Atlantic
The Fourth Reich is a hypothetical Nazi Reich, or is it? The very demons who destroyed the once vibrant Weimar democracy in Germany are circling around here in the USA, they are called Republicans. Their goal is to destroy Our Democratic Republic and make America autocratic country. They already have control of the Supreme Court Justices, if they gain control of the House and Senate mid-term we are doomed. It will mean an end to the America we once knew. Anyone who is not white or Christian will be treated like second class citizens. At least until the powers to be are in place, then it will be about your wealth, your religion or skin color will not mean a thing.
Don't let it happen. Vote the Republican Party out of existence, VOTE for a Democratic no matter who, and hopefully a new conservative party will emerge in the future.