Re: Campaign 2016 Part XXI: Do you love farce? My fault, I fear.
You're not helping. Women and minorities are still welcome to vote and will not lose that right despite any scare tactics put to use by right or left with the aim of inciting riots and violence. Please, everyone, vote. With all confidence in its validity and continued legality.
Who knows how much of that would stand after
4 years of Trump?
The problem here is not just that Trump is "an overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood." It's that if elected, when things didn't go exactly his way, he would as a last (oh, who are we kidding, first) resort set about to use everything from the FBI to the military to force his way. The only force that could stop him would be the GOP -- if they went along with it, we would no longer have a democracy.
And what in the last 25 years of this GOP leads you to believe that they would take a principled stand and risk their careers or more when they could just claim to be powerless to stop "the will of the people" and meanwhile rack up decades' worth of political and personal benefit in a few short years?
The mainstream GOP are sleazy cheeseballs with no spine or ethics. The base of the GOP are resentful, violent, uneducated nationalists with a frothy Cool Whip topping of Jesus as portrayed by William Dudley Pelley.
I have no faith the GOP would deny themselves the chance to just take what they can't get by democratic means. 30 years of demagoguery and spite have turned them into a John Birch party with 40 million members.
It
can happen here. Don't kid yourself. And this is what it would look like at the start.