If Trump happens to win—and who knows if such an occurrence would ever be treated as legitimate—is it out of the question that all hell would still break loose, just for different reasons?
For all the talk about him and Project 2025 paving the way for a second term, can’t we expect pushback from Trump detractors who remain in Congress, hopefully uncooperative law enforcement and military, along with what would seem the inevitable unrest in the streets and statehouses across the land?
If Trump wins, either legitimately by a narrow margin in the Electoral College or because he was able to pull off some Maduro-like sleight of hand, I have to believe that there would be great unhappiness in the land, unless the current energy generated by and support for the Harris-Walz ticket dissipates and collapses.
It seems that come November 5, if things remain as they are now, the race shouldn’t be close. How can anyone in their right mind look at the two tickets and draw the conclusion that it’s a toss-up? Light versus darkness, needs addressed versus needs ignored, level-headed leadership and reasonableness versus paranoid fear mongering, heavy-handed religion, and incompetence.
Anything that’s now being promised publicly by Trump and Vance most likely and categorically contradicts the substance and intent of Project 2025. And the powers that be within the Republican Party, one would think, won’t stand for any departure from that script.
Did Republicans honestly think that Project 2025 would just cruise under the radar? Do they not realize that a majority of voters are sick and tired of Trump and Vance and their insistence on peddling negativity and hate? That the polls still reveal a close race is almost beyond comprehension.
Where would the hope and pride be in a Trump-Vance White House? If it happens, then we stick our heads firmly between our legs and kiss our asses goodbye.
Or, we gird our loins and reassess the wisdom and usefulness of the Electoral College, and prepare to somehow heal the open wound left us after Appomattox and Lincoln’s assassination. And of course there are the ongoing assaults leveled by hostile governments and people like Putin and the rest.
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