1 reason I think “will trump leave if he loses” pieces are overblown is because when trump flirts w/ idea of not “accepting” a certain 2020 result, he almost certainly means something not authoritarian but catty as hell, like he often does, like not attending a Biden inauguration
if people, including his own military appointees, start getting really mad at him for not leaving the Oval Office when it isn’t his turn anymore, there is not, I’m sorry to say, much institutional appetite to let him keep hanging out; the pentagon demonstrated that with...
...their general squeamishness over the bad PR that came with their involvement w/ Trump trying to “dominate” protests and American cities, so if they can’t even go all in for that, they’re not gonna overthrow the republic for the petulant game show host.
