![]() If President Trump is lucky once - if he is able to find just enough supporters or obedient bureaucrats in our existing federal institutions - voting machines in swing states, including Nevada, could be seized and our election results could be overturned. President Trump, current chief executive of the United States of America, still the most powerful man in the most powerful country on the planet, only has to be lucky once. However, to paraphrase the Irish Republican Army after their failed assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher, we and our institutions have to be lucky every time. It’s tempting to sit quietly, laugh, and comfort ourselves with the assumption that this is all sound and fury, that our institutions will hold, that Trump’s temper tantrums will be embarrassing footnotes in history disconnected from administrative or political action. ![]() I know it’s tempting to look at all of this - at Sidney Powell being reaccepted into Trump’s legal team, at bringing a freshman congresswoman who believes in QAnon into his inner circle, at former national security adviser Michael Flynn calling for martial law and the seizure of Nevada’s voting machines - as acts of desperate weakness. What got my attention was how he’s building an increasingly extreme cadre of loyalists, each wholly disconnected from constitutional principles and reality, each wholly loyal to Donald John Trump, each wholly willing to encourage and push him into violent action - and replacing White House staff with them. ![]() ![]() Close my laptop lid, turn off the alarm, let me go back to bed. This, by itself, would be unremarkable and perfectly in character for him in related news, the sun rises in the southeast this time of year, water is very occasionally wet in our parched deserts, the sky is bluish, and so on. President Trump, it seems, refuses to go quietly and refuses to accept that he lost the election. I was going to take this week off and give my poor, beleaguered laptop keyboard a rest - until I read this. ![]()
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