How else do you explain his desperate actions?
His constant teasing that he won’t leave is just that….
A Tease…
But as the media repeats it from his mouth and reporters repeat it in their stories?
Trump is able to move the ball from the voters to him as he ALWAYS seeks to do….
He knows he’s just one person…
He knows that even people around him will be happy to see him gone…
He knows that the hounds are waiting for him to leave the White House so they take him to task for so many things that he ‘s keep at bay being the President and having a ton of lawyers including the government’s Justice Dept. carrying the water for him…
But unlike his ‘buddy’ Putin?
He can’t just snap his fingers and people will let him do what he wants….
You know?
Be ‘loyal’?
So ?
He’s selling the idea that the election SHOULD be just up to him….
The worry is he KNOWS he’s gonna lose among the voters…
So he’s going after the very process of an Americans election…
This shouldn’t really surprise anyone…
From the start Donald J. Trump has been trying to almost EVERYTHING America IS and stands for….
And sell everyone on HIS reality that centers on him controlling the world….And the mess he makes everything he touches….
Certainly, things are different now than they were even two years ago. A pandemic is disrupting normal campaigning and changing the way a lot of people vote. Trump has much more at stake. Investigations in New York mean that if he’s not re-elected, he could be arrested.
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Trump would like to turn America into a dictatorship, but he hasn’t yet. For over four years he has waged a sort of psychological warfare on the populace, colonizing our consciousness so thoroughly that it can be hard to imagine him gone. That’s part of the reason he says he won’t leave if he’s beaten in November, or even after 2024. It’s to make us forget that it’s not up to him.
Shortly after Trump was elected, the Russian-born journalist Masha Gessen published an important essay called “Autocracy: Rules for Survival.” Gessen laid out six such rules, each incredibly prescient. The one I most often hear repeated is the first, “Believe the autocrat,” which said, “Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization.”
Right now, though, I find myself thinking about the last of Gessen’s rules: “Remember the future.” There is a world after Trump. A plurality of Americans, if not an outright majority, want that world to start in January. And whatever he says, if enough of us stand up to him, it can….
Note…
The big picture: Trump’s own advisers are providing a reality check: the Constitution makes it clear that, even if Trump chooses denial, if Joe Biden is elected president he will be president on Jan. 20.
- “Trump can say ‘I don’t concede, I think it’s rigged,’ but he would not be the president,” a Trump legal adviser told Axios….