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There's only so much you can do to rig an election. You need it to be close enough that you can lie believably. The polls say that it will not be. At that point you need to basically launch a military occupation to keep power. Trump will certainly try it, but I'm not sure that he's still popular enough to pull it off.
Currently, Trump is openly calling for Republicans lead states to explicitly gerrymander their congressional districts, and it's being allowed by both Congress and the Supreme Court. At the same time, Virginia had a popularly passed set of congressional district maps struck down by the very same court.
Quite literally, every branch of government is putting their thumb on the scale for trump. Every branch of the government is corrupt beyond repair, and needs to be removed and restructred in such a way that this can never happen again.
The thing about a gerrymander is that it can backfire, you're diluting votes of both your opponents and your supporters. If you get the ratios wrong, or say, lose a lot of support from the less committed side of your base, then the gerrymandered district goes to the opposition.
I believe it was struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court, was appealed, but hasn't gone to the US Supreme Court yet.
Actually, never mind, I just looked and apparently on 5/15, the US Supreme Court declined to take the case. So yeah, they didn't "strike it down" per se, but the outcome is essentially the same.
I fucking hate this shit.
Like armed, masked people snatching people? Or like the people he just gave a bunch of money to, or like the forces he used on people for a photo-op?
Exactly like that, but he needs an order of magnitude more thugs to actually pull it off.
So if it does happen, will you say something like "we couldn't have done anything to stop it", "how could we have known" or "the only thing we can do now is to protest"?
No, When Trump tries to retain power, it will result in a civil war. Not a "clean" North v South war, but a quagmire of sectarian violence.
Are you talking about the last time he tried or next time?
The last time failed, and because nothing was done to prevent it, the next time will be extremely violent.
It only takes a few mean-looking white supremacist types loitering in front of the polling station to turn away a lot of not-so-white people. Or better, masked ICE agents.
A few at each polling station maybe, or a few dozen. And despite the numbers, Trump doesn't have enough.
They also used to need to hide their corruption. Now they just do it in the open.