General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2020 will be interesting because neither side will accept the election results
if their candidate loses.
If the Democratic candidate loses, we will claim it was because of the Russian interference, voter suppression, and flat out Republican cheating. All which are likely but will we ever point any fingers at an on the Left who either chose not to vote or voted 3rd party?
If Trump loses, he will claim there was massive voter fraud--which he did last time even though he won the electoral vote, which is, afterall, how we elect our presidents. He will incite his followers to riot and call for the Supreme Court to declare the election invalid.
I wonder what Roberts would do then?
Just imagine the evil and mischief a defeated Trump would do in his final weeks in office. He will still have his finger on the nuclear trigger.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)to pardon as many cronies as possible, and then try to tear the country in two. He'd like to be the Supreme Leader of the Confederate States of America 2.0, where he'd win by a landslide, and there wouldn't be that pesky 22nd Amendment.
Igel
(35,337 posts)A lot of people didn't accept the results of the 2000 election, or the 2016 election.
"But nobody suspected that President Obama would refuse to leave office," you might object. But you'd be wrong. There were such--and others who told them, "That's crazy talk." (And those, of course, were right.)
elocs
(22,596 posts)and the Left doing more than just talk about it. Because if all you do when you claim you don't accept results is talk about it, then you accepted them.
edhopper
(33,604 posts)it was stolen and they are working hard to steal 2020.
There is a right and wrong side here.
elocs
(22,596 posts)who in the tens of thousands, greater than Trump's victory margin here, either chose not to vote because they either bought the Big Lie that there was no difference between the candidates or who wanted to teach us a lesson for not nominating Bernie, or those who voted for a 3rd party candidate rather than Clinton bear no responsibility for Trump winning this state.
We've got all of the excuses for a loss ready and waiting and none of them involve our own personal choices.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)jumping with glee at our predicament. We know what Roberts would do, because it's been done before.