I don’t think such a thing is gonna happen….
The first protests for the Manhattan upcoming Trump criminal arrest has few protester’s….
But Rich Lowry writes about what would be a horror story…
The impending Alvin Bragg prosecution offers a taste of what our national politics will be like post–November 2024 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again.
The Left freaked out in 2017, and that was before the Trump attempt to overturn an election, before January 6, and, we can presume, before he was indicted, perhaps more than once.
If Trump wins again via the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, it will be considered a damning indictment of our constitutional system, and there will be some new reason — some equivalent of Russian election interference in 2017 — for progressives to deny the legitimacy of his victory.
There will be large-scale street protests, making good on the threat that had cities around the country boarding up prior to the 2020 election.
The atmosphere will be fevered, and however much people lost perspective in 2017, the reflex will be to lose it even more.
The notion of national divorce will gain more traction on the left.
Trump will probably be in personal danger, and so will nearly anyone associated with him.
Security around cabinet officials will have to be beefed up, and the question won’t be if White House staff members will be harassed in restaurants and other public places, but how threatening it will be.
For his part, Trump would certainly be running an ALL CAPS presidency….