Thread by @VMadge

The Dems are saying just hang on till the election, only 161 days from now, and he will be voted out of office.

No. This is the terrifying reality - Trump will be making decisions for this country for the next 257 days if he loses the election.

He will contest the loss,

there is no doubt about that. And he will go berserk if he sees that he cannot win the contest in court. He will take it to the Supreme Court. Knowing that, Americans of both parties should shudder, in that the very foundation of our democracy is under attack. Of course, there

will be no proof, because there will be no voting fraud. But that will not matter to his base. He will whip them into an armed insurrection, for they will believe the deep state somehow stole the election from them. States will call up the National Guard to defend against the

insurrection, and there is little doubt that blood will be spilled. Trump will say the blue state governors are part of the deep state trying to remove him from power after a coordinated, nationwide voting fraud against him and his base.
He will then call up the Armed Forces to

push back the National Guard, claiming there is a coup underway, and he must defend the nation against it. This will be the ultimate test of our Democracy. Will the Generals obey their Commander In Chief, and attack their own ranks in the National Guard? My heart says they

would never do that. Their code of honor would prevent them, and they would turn on Trump in a Constitutional crisis never imagined by the Founding Fathers. But what if there were splinter groups in the military dedicated to Trump? MIght there be total chaos, with troops killing

their fellow soldiers? Might this degenerate into a Civil War? There are millions of firearms in our country, and there are thousands of people in right wing militias bent on fighting the deep state, which they see as being controlled by left wing liberals intent on taking

their guns away. (Oh, stop being an alarmist! This is pure fantasy. It could never happen in America. We are not some third world, lawless nation. We are the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave.)

Don't be so sure. America is more divided than it has

ever been since the Civil War. Our nation is a tinderbox - a powder keg - waiting for a match to be tossed in.

Look at what has happened in Michigan, Virginia and other States - with people armed with weapons of war, including bazookas, screaming in the faces of the police,

who were the thin blue line between them and the governors. A small mistake could have turned in to a massacre. It is amazing that it did not happen.

What are we willing to risk? Are we willing to let Trump stay in office until November, agitating his base more and more, making

unhinged accusations that have no grounding in reality? In the runup to the election, he will sow seeds of dissent, make unfounded claims of crimes committed by all of his detractors. Outrageous conspiracy theories will abound, based on Q anon and Breitbart and Fox News. He will

convince his base that others are to blame for the huge loss of life, including China, WHO, Obama and Biden. And they will band together in loosely affiliated groups across the nation, who have been preparing for the battle against those who would come to take their land and

their freedom. (Oh, come on! That is pure conjecture by a liberal snowflake, afraid of his own shadow. Americans would never take up arms against each other.)

This is not some random fantasy just cooked up. There have been decades of stories documenting a national collection of

doomsday preppers, convinced that the federal government is coming to get them any day. They KNEW it was going to be Obama, and armed themselves to the teeth, and collected vast quantities of gear, ammo, and supplies to last for many months in the coming assault. They carry out

drills of simulated attacks. These are the men and women that stormed the capitol building in Michigan, and stand at the ready in every corner of the country.

So, the big question for America is are we willing to wait until November to remove Trump from power? Will we take

the risk of sending the nation into an internal war? Or will cooler minds prevail? Will the Republicans finally realize that Trump is an existential threat to us all, and invoke the 25th Amendment? The stark reality of that is both parties would have to come together in a 2/3

majority of both houses of Congress to permanently remove him. By that simple unification, the removal would become bipartisan. The only guilty party would be Trump himself. And that is exactly how it should be. Trump does not represent the traditional GOP, he has thrust his

corruption upon them all, and each of them fear him. But together, they could crush Trump like a bug.

If they have no allegiance to the people, it will be up to the Democrats to impeach him again, airing his corruption for the whole nation to see. To see that he has no love

or dedication to the people, and he intentionally led us into a slaughter for personal gain. At some point, America will turn on him, and cast him out for being the black hearted ruthless grifter that he has always been. And the Senate will have no choice but to convict and

remove him from office. History will record whether our elected officials chose to abdicate their dedication to the people and the rule of law, or to resoundingly rededicate their unwavering support for both. @SenateDems @SenateGOP @HouseDemocrats @HouseGOP @DNCWarRoom

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