A Sense of Doubt blog post #3430 - Why Trump Must Not Win in 2024
Trump must not win.
Read: Historians rank Trump as worst president
If we thought democracy was at stake in 2020, it's REALLY at stake in 2024.
Amid Doubts About Biden’s Mental Sharpness, Trump Leads Presidential Race
Roughly 6 in 10 voters describe both Biden and Trump as ‘embarrassing’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/fact-check-presidential-debate/
My favorite being this claim:
At one point, Trump said grocery prices have "doubled, tripled, quadrupled!"
Grocery Prices have NOT doubled since Trump's term of office let alone Quadrupled.
Look at this: GROCERY PRICES 1950 - NOW
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SAF11
Many see a second Trump term as a "post-Constitutional" vision for the country, serving the aims of White Christian Nationalists, such as those pushing the hateful Project 2025.
He has violent and armed followers who are organizing from prison, and he may pardon some or all of them. They have already declared war on his opponents or simply those following the rule of law and the Constitution.
Biden is not doing enough and is not the right person to win against Trump this time. And even though. Trump lies almost as often as he breathes, Biden is not the perfect opposite of veracity and accuracy.
Scientists are girding for an all out assault on science, reason, and common sense in a second trump term. Many are trying to set up environmental protections in such a way that they cannot be reversed at all or not easily (or not by just the president).
The fact that many people believe that they were better off from 2016-2020 (minus the pandemic) during the governance of the worst president of all time, a convicted felon, a dictator wanna-be, a shallow, crass, and mentally ill narcissist is mind-boggling.
Just considering how poorly Trump managed the greatest pandemic in 100 years and how many more people died under his watch than needed to should be enough to convince any reasonable person that he can never be president again.
(Though don't get me started on Kennedy... can't stand that guy either.)
A January 6 Rioter Is
Leading an Armed National Militia From Prison
As the US election approaches, Edward “Jake” Lang says that
the militia will focus on potential “civil unrest” around the vote and will be
ready to activate at a moment’s notice.
Trump’s Online MAGA Army
Calls Guilty Verdict a Declaration of War
Trump supporters, fringe extremists, right-wing pundits,
and politicians have all posted incendiary rhetoric, including some calls for
“war,” following former president Donald Trump’s felony conviction.
Why scientists fear a
second Trump term, and what they are doing about it
Several federal
agencies are working to safeguard research, including climate science, from
future political meddling.
“His honesty”
Trump supporter in 2024
“His lies”
Biden supporter
“He had the country headed in the right direction”
Trump supporter
“America was going in the wrong direction”
Biden supporter
“He was a crook”
Biden supporter
“He couldn’t be bought”
Trump supporter
“Efficient”
Trump supporter
“Incompetent”
Biden supporter
“Less division”
Trump supporter
“Divided the country”
Undecided
Are You Better Off Than Four Years
Ago? OMG You Have Got to Be Kidding Me.
Our horror show video catalogues
Trump’s dangerous coronavirus denial—four years ago this month.
Trump's 100 Days of Deadly Coronavirus Denial
Mother Jones
Apr 29, 2020
It’s been 100 days since officials confirmed the first coronavirus case in the United States, on January 20, 2020. In the weeks since, more than 1 million Americans have fallen ill and more than 57,000 have died. More than 26 million people have lost their jobs and Congress has approved $2.7 trillion in relief aid. A look back at the first 100 days of America’s coronavirus crisis clearly shows the consequences of President Trump's lack of preparation, seriousness, and empathy.
Here’s a visual timeline of the many times Trump praised himself, blamed others, made bogus claims, or downplayed the risk of the coronavirus since then.
For more award-winning independent reporting, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Here’s what the
Christian right wants from a second Trump term
Religious
conservatives see opportunities for fresh gains after a series of victories
during Trump’s first term. Rights advocates see a dangerous blurring of church
and state.
and
June 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.
EDT
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| Christian leaders pray with President Donald Trump on Sept. 1, 2017, after he signed a proclamation for a national day of prayer. (Evan Vucci/AP) |
and
Trump pledged to pardon
Jan. 6 rioters. He faces pressure to name names.
The presumptive
Republican presidential nominee’s campaign said he will decide pardons on a
“case-by-case” basis without specifying factors.
Crack down on illegal immigration to an extreme degree
Mr. Trump is planning a massive expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025. Among other things, he would:
1. Carry out mass deportations
Mr. Trump’s top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, said that a second Trump administration would seek a tenfold increase in the volume of deportations — to more than a million per year.
2. Increase the number of agents for ICE raids
He plans to reassign federal agents and the National Guard to immigration control. He would also enable the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants.
3. Build camps to detain immigrants
The Trump team plans to use military funds to build “vast holding facilities” to detain immigrants while their deportation cases progress.
4. Push for other countries to take would-be asylum seekers from the United States
He plans to revive “safe third country” agreements with Central American countries and expand them to Africa and elsewhere. The aim is to send people seeking asylum to other countries.
5. Once again ban entry into the United States by people from certain Muslim-majority nations
He plans to suspend the nation’s refugee program and once again bar visitors from mostly Muslim countries, reinstating a version of the travel ban that President Biden revoked in 2021.
6. Try to end “birthright citizenship”
His administration would declare that children born to undocumented parents were not entitled to citizenship and would cease issuing documents like Social Security cards and passports to them.
Use the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries
Mr. Trump has declared that he would use the powers of the presidency to seek vengeance on his perceived foes. His allies have developed a legal rationale to erase the Justice Department’s independence from the president. Mr. Trump has suggested that he would:
1. Direct a criminal investigation into Mr. Biden and his family
As president, Mr. Trump pressed the Justice Department to investigate his foes. If re-elected, he has vowed to appoint a special prosecutor “to go after” Mr. Biden and his family.
2. Have foes indicted for challenging him politically
He has cited the precedent of his own indictments to declare that if he became president again and someone challenged him politically, he could say, “Go down and indict them.”
3. Target journalists for prosecution
Kash Patel, a Trump confidant, has threatened to target journalists for prosecution if Mr. Trump returns to power. The campaign later distanced Mr. Trump from the remarks.
Increase presidential power
Mr. Trump and his associates have a broad goal to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that currently operates independently of the White House. Mr. Trump has said that he will:
1. Bring independent agencies under presidential control
Congress has set up various regulatory agencies to operate independently from the White House. Mr. Trump has vowed to bring them under presidential control, setting up a potential court fight.
2. Revive the practice of “impounding” funds
He has vowed to return to a system under which the president has the power to refuse to spend money that Congress has appropriated for programs the president doesn’t like.
3. Strip employment protections from tens of thousands of longtime civil servants
During Mr. Trump’s presidency, he issued an executive order making it easier to fire career officials and replace them with loyalists. Mr. Biden rescinded it, but Mr. Trump has said that he would reissue it in a second term.
4. Purge officials from intelligence agencies, law enforcement, the State Department and the Pentagon
Mr. Trump has disparaged the career work force at agencies involved in national security and foreign policy as an evil “deep state” he intends to destroy.
5. Appoint lawyers who would bless his agenda as lawful
Politically appointed lawyers in the first Trump administration sometimes raised objections to White House proposals. Several of his closest advisers are now vetting lawyers seen as more likely to embrace aggressive legal theories about the scope of his power.
Upend trade and other economic policies
At the risk of disrupting the economy in hopes of transforming it, Mr. Trump plans to impose new tariffs on most goods manufactured abroad. Economists say his broader agenda – including on trade, deportations and taxes – could cause prices to rise. He has said that he will:
1. Impose a “universal baseline tariff,” a new tax on most imported goods
Mr. Trump has said that he plans to impose a tariff on most goods made overseas, floating a figure of 10 percent for a new import tax. On top of raising prices for consumers, such a policy would risk a global trade war that hurts American exporters.
2. Implement steep new trade restrictions on China
He has said that he will “phase out all Chinese imports” of electronics and other essential goods, and impose new rules to stop U.S. companies from making investments in China. The two countries are the largest economies in the world and exchange hundreds of billions of dollars of goods each year.
3. Slash rules imposed on business interests
He has vowed to revive his deregulatory agenda and go further in curbing the so-called administrative state – agencies that issue rules for corporations such as limits aimed at keeping the air and water clean and ensuring that food, drugs, cars and consumer products safe, but that can cut into business profits.
4. Extend and expand tax cuts
Mr. Trump has said he would extend the tax cuts from his 2017 tax law that are set to expire, including for all levels of personal income and for large estates. He also privately told business leaders he wants to further lower the corporate tax rate.
Retreat from military engagement with Europe
Mr. Trump has long made clear that he sees NATO, the country’s most important military alliance, not as a force multiplier with allies but as a drain on American resources by freeloaders. He has said he will:
1. Potentially undercut NATO or withdraw the United States from the alliance
While in office, he threatened to withdraw from NATO. On his campaign website, he says he plans to fundamentally re-evaluate NATO’s purpose, fueling anxiety that he could gut or end the alliance.
2. Settle the Russia-Ukraine war “in 24 hours”
He has claimed that he would end the war in Ukraine in a day. He has not said how, but he has suggested that he would have made a deal to prevent the war by letting Russia simply take Ukrainian lands.
Use military force in Mexico and on American soil
Mr. Trump has been more clear about his plans for using U.S. military force closer to home. He has said that he would:
1. Declare war on drug cartels in Mexico
He has released a plan to fight Mexican drug cartels with military force. It would violate international law if the United States used armed forces on Mexico’s soil without its consent.
2. Use federal troops at the border
While it’s generally illegal to use the military for domestic law enforcement, the Insurrection Act creates an exception. The Trump team would invoke it to use soldiers as immigration agents.
3. Use federal troops in Democratic-controlled cities
He came close to unleashing the active-duty military on racial justice protests that sometimes descended into riots in 2020 and remains attracted to the idea. Next time, he has said, he will unilaterally send federal forces to bring order to Democratic-run cities.
What Will Happen to
America if Trump Wins Again? Experts Helped Us Game It Out.
The scenarios are ...
grim.
The bonds that bind the Union loosen.
How Trump gets reelected matters. Is it a close but legitimate victory where he loses the popular vote but takes the electoral college, as he did in 2016? Or do the insurrectionist schemes that failed in 2020 — getting state officials to block certification and substitute slates of electors — work in 2024? Perhaps by 2024 such shenanigans will have been made legal in certain swing states. Ultimately, does the GOP-appointed Supreme Court majority or the gerrymandered House of Representatives pick the winner?
The intensity and immediacy of the backlash would vary depending on those circumstances, but serious damage to the democracy may be inevitable either way if Trump is on the ballot, says David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “We have a significant percentage of the American electorate right now who have been lied to about the integrity of our elections, who believe that elections … are rigged unless their candidate wins,” he told me. “Yet it’s nowhere close to 50 percent of America overall. But if Trump were to win a narrow victory again, I could see [election denial] ideas … infecting a larger percentage of the electorate. And if a large segment of a democracy’s electorate loses confidence in elections, that democracy probably is unsustainable.”
Differences between states could deepen. “You’d be looking at states — Democratic states — which would be taking over Republican arguments about states’ rights and applying them in a different way to try to limit the reach of the federal government,” says Snyder, the Yale historian. “And then you’d also be seeing something which I think has already started to happen as a result of the overturning of Roe v. Wade: You’re going to see people moving. It might be a peaceful process at first. But I think you’re going to see populations sorting themselves out according to where people feel safe and at home, which will mean red states becoming more red and blue states becoming more blue. And that makes some kind of secession or breakup scenario in the medium term more likely.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/13/trump-christian-right-abortion-prayer/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/06/14/trump-jan6-attack-pardons/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/06/18/trump-2024-anxiety/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/16/us/politics/trump-policy-list-2025.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/
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