We are in the middle of a rolling authoritarian and even fascist coup
that is working with and through the United States Constitution to no
small degree. To be sure, Trump is doing everything in his considerable
power to undermine a “normal” bourgeois-constitutional election. He’s
working to sabotage mail delivery in an election that will depend on
mail-in ballots thanks to the pandemic Trump has fanned. He’s deploying
armed right-wing “poll watchers” to intimidate minority and other Biden
voters. He’s encouraging terrorist street actions and intimidation by
white “tough guys” (bikers, militia members, cops, and soldiers) before,
during, and after the election. His party will mess with voting sites
and access in majority Democratic jurisdictions.
Trump claims again and again that the only way he can lose is “if the
election is rigged.” This is understood by his armed “tough guy” base as
a call for “civil war” if vote count doesn’t go his way. It is possible
pretext for suspending the election and declaring invalid the tens of
mail-in ballots required by the pandemic that Trump has fanned across
the nation – the novel coronavirus that is now part of the widely hated
Trump’s electoral/anti-electoral strategy. It a possible “justification”
also for declaring martial law, as he is being urged to do by some of
his far right friends (e.g. neo-Nixonian lunatic Roger Stone and the Fatherland News’ fascist frau Jeanine Pirro) to squash protests against his fake Election Day victory.
Remember Cohen’s testimony to Congress last year: “Given my
experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election
in 2020 there will never be a peaceful transition of power. That is why I agreed to come before you today.”
“Trump,” Cohen warns in his book Disloyal,
“will never leave office peacefully….Whoever follows Trump into the
White House, if the President doesn’t manage to make himself the leader
for life, as he has started to joke about – and Trump never actually jokes – will discover a tangle of frauds and scams and lawlessness. Trump and his minions will do anything to cover up that reality, and I mean anything” (emphasis added).
Listen to this recent exchange between Trump and an American reporter:
Reporter: “Win, lose, or draw in this election, will you commit here
today for a peaceful transferal of power after the election”?
Trump: “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens. We want to
get rid of the ballots, and we’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be
a transfer, frankly. There’ll be a continuation. The ballots are out of control, you know it….”
The orange wannabe fascist strongman will not commit to a peaceful transition.
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