I hope he tries #3. It's one thing to play rope-a-dope when you're the president

of the United States, but he won't be able to ignore subpoenas and delay document disgorgement forever as a citizen. I think he will have trouble finding serious lawyers to even take his cases. Unfortunately, he will have a war chest, but he's got severe financial problems around the corner.

EDIT:

I guess I'm in the minority in that I don't believe Pence will run for president. I see him going straight to the Christian Nationalists, where he is idolized.

"Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness

that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3 of your people while 1/3 watches." - Werner Herzog

https://twitter.com/RK_Hayes/status/1341468156745842688

That's right.

Also, the French invasion was the height of his popularity in Germany. It was all downhill after this.

EDIT: My favorite part of WW2 to read about is that last part, "The Downfall." Although to be honest it's scary as hell how he mentally deteriorated while trying to run the war, at the same time he was militarily incompetent, and lashing out at the German people for failing him. He turned against nearly everybody at the very end. And it was a living hell for the people still in the concentration camps.

We need to make room for AOC and others like her.

She is capable of doing that elusive, ephemeral thing Masha Gessen keeps saying Democrats need to do in order to ensure our own survival: speak to people in a new language of aspiration.

And I'm betting Ezra Klein would agree.

We need people to identify with our party the way Republicans identify with their "party" and the way blue collar and working people used to identify with the Democratic party. (i.e., if you were in a union, who else would you vote for?) It goes beyond policy, but it doesn't exclude policy.

I think the reason Dr. Fauci is urging us not to "overreact" is in part because

COVID mutates into new variants once or twice every 4 weeks.

Back during the summer we (here in the U.S.) had a variant that made COVID more transmissible.

COVID-19 Update: Coronavirus is Mutating and Becoming More Contagious; CDC Now Projects Up to 226,000 Deaths by mid-October; ; and More

https://www.docwirenews.com/docwire-pick/covid-19-update-coronavirus-is-mutating-and-becoming-more-contagious-cdc-now-projects-up-to-226000-deaths-by-mid-october-and-more/

D614G:

Professor Timothy Snyder: "'The institutions held' is a really bad argument."

This is why I have zero regrets for giving to the Lincoln Project.

It was worth every cent.

Many are. Brenton Tarrant was in this camp

and gushed about Accelerationism in his "manifesto." Just as a general observation, the Accelerationists are more dangerous because they are unconcerned with consequences, unlike your typical "keyboard warrior."

Maybe true in the U.S.

But I laughed out loud when I saw the OP because the opposite is true historically. A "coup attempt"--either real or manufactured--is always used as a Reichstag Fire like pretext to arrest, torture, imprison and disappear your political enemies, to totally change the constitution or existing laws, granting supreme powers to the authoritarian, and for the most part ends opposition, dissent and in many cases freedom of the press. An unsuccessful coup is in most cases a calamity for any hope of democracy. (i.e., from Trujillo to more recently Erdogan).

Here the situation is reversed, with the conservatives attempting and failing, and we do need to call them out as fascists and wake people up about the fragility of our democracy. We have the trumpification of our institutions, law enforcement, etc... and this must worry us deeply.

I don't mean to be such a stickler for details, but closely reading and listening to Masha Gessen, Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat over the past two months has made me realize we need to choose our words very carefully, and be very specific, rather than overgeneralizing, about what we are describing when we discuss what is happening in our country.

Forbes warned America that Ross was "among the biggest grifters in American history"