Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures to Bypass Election Results
forbes.com
forbes.com
I see at least 3 scenarios:
1) Trump wins outright. I don't have a good feel for the probability, but I don't think it's zero.
2) Trump contests the election, e.g. in the manner outlined in the linked article. At the very least, this will delay the next administration, maybe give the opportunity to install more judges and tear down some more Obama related laws & regulations.
3) same as 2 but shortlived. Trump hands over power but continues after the election to run interference and whip up unrest for the next 4 years, maybe paving the road for more Trumps to ascend to the presidency.
I believe 3) is the most likely scenario, and probably the most damaging to the US.
I suggest you should recalibrate your crystal ball once again.
I find it almost impossible to believe that Trump will just shut up and go away. He's going to be stirring things up, attacking the next president (Biden or the 2024 winner), yelling about how much better he would have done it and how the new president should have done things. That's bad. What's worse is the effect he's going to have on the next round of Republican primaries, pushing them to run a Trump-like candidate in 2024.
The Republican Party can't heal until they learn to ignore Trump, even after he's out of office.
So if a man with experience of running a country expresses opinions about running that same country that would be bad in your book?
https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/web-video/former-pre...
Notice how little we hear from Democratic messaging about Russian interference or impeachment? Clearly this must not have tested well when they were vetting their messaging against test audiences.
My guess: the idea of some refused succession is all bluster and fantastic delusions of media-elite liberals, unable to imagine a reality that's not all-out emergency.
I'm saying that the article and general character of these types of allegations fall in line with the previous four years of frantic searching for the magic phrase or story that'll finally banish Trump. It's more desperation than reporting.
"Bush derangement syndrome" they called it with W.
Republicans were like this with Clinton.
I don't remember it before that. But it's been growing worse and worse with each president since Clinton.
Since parties largely lack an ideological foundation and their constituencies aren’t attached, they need to portray things as pure disaster and make clear will-to-power arguments, cast their opponents as devils, etc.