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Sadly, the normalization of politicial violence only helps Trump to dismantle the norms and peaceful transfer of power our democracy was founded upon. π
My concern is more so if he gets elected, he might try to justify "emergency powers" citing political violence as history has shown with other authoritarians.
What transfer of power would there be? He is not in power.
When Trump loses the coming election, a peaceful transfer of power should go from Biden to Harris, but Trump has worked to dismantle norms such that we must now expect that he will contest the results, tell his supporters he won, and worry about those angry supporters being goaded into attacks on poll workers, judges, Congress, and federal buildings.
Vance is already feigning ignorance of how he and Trump create violence.
Excerpt of Vance/Bash kerfuffle (page is not the full conversation):
They are making a peaceful transfer more difficult by telling lies, spurring on their most violent supporters, and then denying all culpability. Sadly, doing so may spread from their fanatics to a larger population as evinced by yet-another-gunman-incident.
"Your reporting about the threats of violence that resulted from my voicing unfounded rumours started by white nationalists is the real propaganda!" - the couchfucker
Exactly!
Plus, imagine what happens if he's assassinated and then Harris wins the election.
Absolute cluster fuck
I pray whatever gods may be spare us from such a fate.
Gonna be a cluster either way, but at least in that case it can't end with him in power.
Additionally, there are hangers-on who are banging the drum about another January 6 if they don't get their way. It's foolish to take them at their word and think that it only means a voter supporession billl.
Ahh I understand, I hope that since a Democrat is in power they will be quick to protect democracy