With a year to go until the November 2024 US presidential election, some say American democracy itself is at stake.
It is a cliché of reporting American politics to say that the upcoming election is one of the most consequential of all time. But 2024 really has many wondering if the very foundation of the Republic is on the line.Jeff Timmer now works for the pro-democracy group the Lincoln Project, but was a stalwart of the GOP for thirty years. The former Republican strategist is bleak in his assessment.
Jeff fears even if Trump secures the presidency by winning the most electoral college votes, he is unlikely to win the popular vote. That could set up a scenario where a majority of Americans distrust the elected president to uphold democracy, leading to violence on both sides of the political divide.
In some states, like Arizona and Wisconsin, Trump is ahead by a few points. In Nevada, Joe Biden has a tiny lead and in Georgia, Trump is comfortably ahead. Of course the election is still a year away and some of these polls will reflect dissatisfaction with the Biden administration and the economy, more than a desire to put Donald J. Trump back in the White House.
It says it already has thousands on its books, ready to replace federal workers who have spent decades in post. He also added that if he wins the election: "You will be vindicated and proud, and the thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated, discredited and totally disgraced."
"The key to that is really that he would install his own people who are loyalists there like he tried to do previously", Shan - a former white collar prosecutor - added. "I had always been opposed to Trump but then I realised he had subsumed the party…it was a lost cause." he told me."The monster that has been unleashed, the cancer, the virus…has been enabled because of their unwillingness to tackle it", Jeff Timmer said.Then there is the potential for Trump to pull America out of Nato, or withdraw support for Ukraine.
Jeff Timmer says the Supreme Court has traditionally been an "impartial, reasonable backstop to radicalism and chaos". Even if the Supreme Court justices are beyond reproach, Donald Trump has repeatedly appealed for them to intervene in what he declares is election interference.
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