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Originally Posted by lozen
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So tell me in the last term of Donald Trumps presidency what he has enacted that makes him facist?
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So let me give you a very specific example of what Trump and Co have been busy doing.
In the 2020 election you probably recall that in the close States, that in the ones Trump was behind, his people inside and the protestors out side were demanding they "Count ever Vote!"
Conversely in any State were he was ahead and it was clear Biden was gaining and likely to over take his people and the protestors demanded they "Stop the count".
The problem Trump and Co had was they had vote Counters (State AG's and local officials) who would not subvert the law for him.
Trump is trying to remedy that for the next election as he has noted, targeting those who count the vote as most important to control.
So come 2024 Trump and co have already put in place a ton of people in these decision making positions who took the position in 2020 that there was massive fraud and Trump won.
If those people are able to "Stop the Count' in any key State Trump is slightly up but about to lose in, simply because Trump yells 'fraud... stop the count', there is no Constitutional remedy for that.
The local people in charge can simply say 'we got a credible allegation of fraud and stopped counting while we looked into it' and the best the Dem's could do is try to get an emergency SC decision to restart it.
We learned in Bush V Gore, the SC cannot reset the date or give more time, so even if they think it was wrong to stop counting and it needs to resume, the count by the Constitution must be certified by a certain date.
So just as with Bush V Gore they could rule, 'yes the count should be happening' but also say 'too bad though as there is no time and remedy, so you must certify anyway'.
That is it. Just like that Trump stole a bunch of swing States and there is no remedy in the Constitution to fix that if they delay the count long enough that it cannot be done before the required certification date.
What the Dems and society would be told would be 'sucks to be as it really looks like you would have won, but them is the breaks, as the States have control over that aspect, and the Certifications are now done'.
Obviously such a blatant steal would lead to mass unrest in the Dem base, particularly the younger progressive types and the POC voters. As a betting man, I would be counting on Trump wishing for that as he takes power, as Step 2, is then to weaponize "dissent" in ways America has not seen prior. He wants to slam the full weight of law enforcement and the Military into such protestors and I think he will gladly fire anyone who stands in his way. This time I am betting he does not allow any threat of Mass Resignations to deter him. He wants those mass resignations. He wants to fill those ranks with 'his' people so on the next order it is followed without question.