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 āunofficially outsourcedā thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title āProject 2025.ā 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: āPresident Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,ā he said. āPresident Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.ā
Great. Should anyone bring that up, thereās 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) āthe democratic statesā, 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 āproofā of what he was saying all along.
Iāve never really understood why itās necessary to take into account how these people may react. The law is the law, if itās enforced in blue states and red ones decide to forego their responsibilities, fine.
Fuck 'em.
Theyāre going to whine about something anyway and they donāt much care if what theyāre whining about has any basis in reality.
Well for one, it would be great if we could unify the country again without a civil war.
Sure, Iām all for that. Iām not in favor of indulging the fantasies of a bunch of angry seditious morons though.