If Trump happens to win (cue the shuddering), would he really have an easy time transforming the government into his plaything?
Unless he is able to facilitate a wholesale turnover of personnel, one might expect him to have a difficult time convincing certain people to bend the knee, to compromise themselves for the benefit of such a cowardly clown. Not to mention the blowback by more than half the country and their representatives in Congress toward his Presidency being illegitimate due to the four (3 by then?) outstanding indictments and numerous felony counts, including his involvement on January 6.
It seems to me that his path to success would be quite rocky and treacherous even if he made it back to the White House—which just can’t happen. It’d be the Democrats’ turn to delay, delay, delay.
Trump isn’t Putin. Sometimes I think we’re giving him too much credit when it comes to potential post-election scenarios, i.e. that he’ll just fill positions with cronies and lackeys and waltz into the perfect set-up that enables him to take over the Justice Department and dismiss the cases against him.
From all appearances, Trump seems incapable of being as sly and cunning and ruthless as someone like Putin. Trump is intoxicated by power but doesn’t quite know how to wield it, operate its levers. He’s more a bull in the China closet who can’t keep his mouth shut.
Hopefully, all of this handwringing and doomsplaining will never develop beyond conjecture, because Joe Biden confounds the pollsters and kicks the faux Jesus’ sorry ass even worse than last time.
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