Kurt Eichenwald's Twitter thread is truly terrifying.

[mindfulNJ]

https://threader.app/thread/1190367840454533120

[EveHammond13]

1. a lot like Handmaid's Tale

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yikes.

[mindfulNJ]

3. Right?

I didn’t need to read this right before bed. What a nightmare.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. except it's based on a false premise

Article II
Section 1

The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.

Emphasis added.

The term is 4 years. Election is under the power of states' legislatures and Congress. The President has no say in it, emergency or not.

[mindfulNJ]

13. I hope you're right

but Trump doesn't care about the law and neither do his supporters.

[coti]

16. That's true, but that sure doesn't make what they do constitutional nt

[PSPS]

5. Click bait

[brush]

6. He can try cancelling the election but I doubt he has the courage.

The country won't sit still for it. There will be riots in the street.

Some wingers like to threaten a civil war, well they ain't seen nothing yet if trump tries to cancel the election.

[MFM008]

11. This

[XRubicon]

7. Maybe we should ask Virgil Caines brother about this.

[uponit7771]

8. K&R, anyone at this point that claims Red Don has boundary is naive and not paying attention

[DesertRat]

9. Why is Eichenwald giving him ideas?

[mindfulNJ]

12. Exactly what I thought.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[lunatica]

14. Kick

[yardwork]

15. Particularly important point:

13...so FOR GODS SAKE stop the nonsense of raging over whether there is a public option or Medicare for all as a primary voting issue, or whether someone is a “corporate democrat” or a “socialist”. None of that matters this time. We are IN this position because idiots...

14...did not recognize what was at stake in 2016, played silly games about “both sides are equally bad.” This is the same game that was played in the German federal elections in 1932, where people voting for the “can’t win” candidate gave enormous power to Hitler...

15...just three years later, hitler declared a national emergency, dissolved the legislature and called for new elections. And soon after that, the “protest candidate and his supporters were locked up.