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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Thanks to Trump and his Republican supporters, and apologists like you, we have established that if a party holds Congress, it can reject electoral votes and install its losing candidate. It is an obvious threat to democracy that was not on anyone's radar six months ago, and yet here we are. To say nothing of what it means that he has persuaded significant numbers of people that Biden did not win legitimately.
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He could not and cannot - indeed no one can - become a dictator, or overthrow an election.
This whole last month has been a warped, embarrassing spectacle - Kubrickian, absurdist. The whole effort was pathetic.
Trump is a mentally ill person. And some would ask if a smarter person could have pulled this off. Here’s the answer: No. I don’t care how diabolical and clever a president might be. Any effort to become a dictator or flip an election is not just stillborn... It’s never even viably conceived. Hence, no threat.
(If I threaten to shoot you with my finger, with magical bullets I claim to have in my hand, am I a threat to you? That’s about as much of a threat of installation of a dictatorship there is, under any president.)
