Imagine:"If Trump gets an early vote count lead, he'll claim victory & tell the secretary of state to stop counting. If that's unsuccessful, Trump will claim victimhood and fraud.
Right Wing media will promote it, the cowardly GOP will back it, & his supporters will believe it."
There was an argument among Never-Trumpers about whether to "Burn it all down". The @SteveSchmidtSES/@Timodc/@SykesCharlie faction wanted to extinguish the scourge that metastasized into the "Trickle Down Pathology"
of Trumpism....1/ thebulwark.com/burn-it-all-do…
The @DavidAFrench faction wanted to split the needle (Beat Trump/GOP hold the Senate) so that the institutions of government that the GOP attempted to dismantle would contain the Democrats when they came into power. 2/
Well.....there was a flaw in the @DavidAFrench, split-the-needle philosophy.......because it presupposed a peaceful transition of power. Whether or not it remains peaceful is yet to be determined. But we're a long way from any transition of power......3/
Remember how quickly people like Lindsey Graham went from: "If you could show me that Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing"...2/ axios.com/gordon-sondlan…
.....to the defense of "So what if he did it?"....once the evidence came out?.....(thread): 3/
"Hell, I even found it ironic thinking about how when you watch Trump’s rallies, for many in the audience, the experience appears to almost be orgasmic, which is consistent with the role of dopamine in the experience…." Threads: 1/