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Donald Trump’s “Epiphany”
It’s not a plan so much as an attempt to undermine democracy.
Depending on your mileage, watching Trump’s last ditch effort to remain in power through the world’s dumbest attempt at subterfuge on the twelfth day of Christmas is either awesome or a bit sacrilege. But, whatever, apparently we’re doing this.
I’ve explained this process a few times before, but here I’m going to focus on January 6th and the Trump contingent’s, “plan,” for it. Before I get too far into this I want to remind everyone that regardless of what Stephen Miller tells the wax museum that is Fox News, Trump will not be declared President and this issue will not go to Congress. I know he off and on thinks it will, I know Trump’s Presidency has been marked by the undermining of democracy and our democratic institutions and that Trump himself is a fascist/authoritarian would-be dictator, but just as he couldn’t win the general, he also cannot win here.
And that’s actually the rub. Trump has unfortunately trained the American people to see the Presidential election not as an actual democratic election but as some sort of elitist choice. The argument could be and has been made that that is essentially what the Electoral College is and I have debated that in previous articles as well, but regardless of the persistence of the EC or even the…
