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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 05:51 PM Jun 2016

The Dem candidate had better win this November in a landslide...

...or else Trump will used scorched-earth tactics to try and steal the Electoral College. After all, any election that doesn't elect Donald Trump will be inherently corrupt and unfair. And the whole GOP machine will support him, as will Fox "news". The mainstream media will present it as "both sides do it". I'm guessing the whole shebang will be used--intimidation, threats, lawsuits, outright violence. Banana Republic tactics, used outright and unashamedly for the first time in US history, the gloves off. The Dem candidate--probably Hillary, but really anyone--will be caught totally off-guard. They will still have residual belief in decency and the rule of law; the GOP will not, and will laugh at us because we do. I believe firmly we could be looking at the worst crisis since 1860 before this year is over, and see no evidence that anyone in the Dem party is prepared at all for this.

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