We Are in Trouble

This Substack piece by Timothy Snyder describes a scenario of very high probability in 2024. What he describes is precisely what was attempted in the 2020 election and only failed because the right people were not in place to accomplish it. With the election laws being passed and considered in various states, the correct people will now be in place to ignore and overturn the 2024 election if that is what is needed to seat a Republican president in 2025.

The vote against the 1/6 Commission by almost every Republican shows us that the entire party is on board for this scenario, not just Trump. And the fact that the Democrats seem unwilling to address this issue bodes very ominously for the future of this country. SCOTUS will not save us.

The scenario then goes like this.  The Republicans win back the House and Senate in 2022, in part thanks to voter suppression.  The Republican candidate in 2024 loses the popular vote by several million and the electoral vote by the margin of a few states.  State legislatures, claiming fraud, alter the electoral count vote.  The House and Senate accept that altered count.  The losing candidate becomes the president.  We no longer have "democratically elected government."  And people are angry.

No one is seeking to hide that this is the plan.  It is right there out in the open.  The prospective Republican candidates for 2024, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, are all running on a big lie platform.  If your platform is that elections do not work, you are saying that you intend to come to power some other way.  The big lie is designed not to win an election, but to discredit one.  Any candidate who tells it is alienating most Americans, and preparing a minority for a scenario where fraud is claimed.  This is just what Trump tried in 2020, and it led to a coup attempt in January 2021.  It will be worse in January 2025.