THE LAST ELECTION
The next two federal elections will be neither free nor fair. In fact, they may never even happen at all. This is because Donald T**** has made the subversion of the electoral process essential to his political career and his lust for power.
He began in 2016 by lying about whether Barak Obama was even eligible to be president. He has claimed without evidence that every election since 2012 that Republican’s lost was rigged. He even insisted that that his 2016 margin of victory would have been bigger if not for alleged fraud.
This campaign of lies culminated after his 2020 loss when he illegally attempted to remain in power and sparked an insurrection aimed at stopping the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021.
Since taking office, Trump has installed loyalists who follow his orders into key positions at all levels of government. This second T**** administration is staffed with so-called election deniers, including three cabinet members, the Attorney General, FBI director and Defense Secretary, two Assistant ADA’s and at least one close aid, Stephen Miller. Voting rights advocates are now fighting the federal government itself rather than fringe outside actors.
As for Donald T****, he has installed MAGA loyalists in virtually all federal election offices in the country. In the twenty-three states with both Republican-controlled legislatures and governors, these reach down even to the precinct level. Their role, up to and including the state’s highest election officials, is to challenge and/or simply refuse to certify results which favor Democratic candidates in close elections.
On March 25, T**** issued a sweeping executive order aiming to allow the president to directly set state election law. By law, however, presidents have almost no Constitutional role or legal power in the administration of elections. For T****, however, this has never been an impediment.
The order directed that states require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to vote. On the alleged grounds of identifying fraud, it ordered the Department of Homeland Security to obtain full voter files from every state, including names, addresses, party affiliation and Social Security numbers. The order also aims to eliminate mail-in voting altogether and attempts to forbid the use of voting machines.
These actions are being used to set the stage for future lies about election integrity and attempts by the White House to control or to change the outcome of upcoming elections. Judicial rulings in lower courts have temporarily halted some of these actions. However, there is no reason to assume that the Supreme Court will reject his plans to subvert the voting process.
And should the Court rule against him, T**** has not shied away from breaking the law to do what he wants. There are a number of instances where federal courts, up to and including the including the Supreme Court, have found his administration’s actions have been in violation of court orders.
Even more sinister is the connection between the elections and Donald T****’s instance on deploying soldiers on the streets of so-called “blue”cities. In furtherance of his plans, he has ordered the extension of the deployment in Los Angeles until next November. And he has told a meeting of the military bass that they should consider American cities “training grounds” for military operations.
The fact of having soldiers in camouflage, standing with weapons at port arms, lined up in front of a polling place, will have a major intimidating factor on civilian voters waiting to cast their ballots. The tension alone could lead to violence, which is what T**** is hoping for in order to validate their deployment in the first place.
There will also be squadrons of T****’s brown-shirted, unidentifiable, masked ICE agents on the streets as well. Hispanic voters will not be comfortable going to the polls and likely stay home now that the Supreme Court has allowed ICE to profile and arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on racial characteristics and the language they speak.
What Donald T**** wants is perfectly clear: the autocratic power to suppress and corrupt the election process to the point where he controls the winners and losers from his desk in the oval office.
Much as contemporary dictators leaders like Putin, Jung Un, Erdoğan and Bukele, T**** aims to stay in power by controlling national election results. And it is important to remember that all of these contemporary dictators were legally elected to office. For that matter, was Adolph Hitler.
Some of the power Donald T*** needs to accomplish his perversion of the electoral process is already in his hands. The rest is in the works. He will have it all if we, the People, do not stop him.
There is Only One Path Forward: RESISTANCE.
There is not much time left.
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