As President Trump still refuses to accept his election defeat, Travis Goodman finds himself gaming out what kind of "power grab" the outgoing president could stage, from continuing to contest the results to trying to disrupt the Electoral College process.
Not respecting the election results is problematic on its own. But considering the crisis the nation is facing now — a new surge in coronavirus cases — Trump’s actions are particularly dangerous. Now more than ever, an effective transition of power is of the utmost importance.
Not only is Trump blocking his advisers from helping the incoming Biden administration get ready to deal with the pandemic, but the defeated president has largely disengaged from the COVID-19 crisis himself. In terms of managing the virus, America will be functionally without a president for two months.
I think it’s good that it’s good that in a little over a month we will once again have a president who acts like an adult, listens to scientists and the facts. It’s not to say that ideology won’t play a role in the Biden administration or that he should be given a free pass on all issues, but facts matter.
As the Trump flag says on the pickup truck I see out and about sometimes. The more polite, but still obscene flag I sometimes see hung on farm houses says, No More Bullshit.
At least farmers know what bull shit smells like – it’s a heck of a lot more pungent then ordinary manure. 💩
If anything that Trump has done, it’s that he’s undermined morals and community standards on obscenity. Honestly, I think that’s a good thing, America has long been too much of a puritan society, afraid to discuss things that all humans do – like have sex and poop.
Thousands of President Trump's supporters were out in Washington, D.C., on Saturday for a day of rallying to echo the false assertion that the presidential election was marked by fraud.
One week after Joe Biden's presidential victory brought about spontaneous celebrations in the nation's capital, a crowd that included the group Women for America First, right-wing activists and conspiracy theorists gathered in the city's downtown near the White House.
In your gut, you know there nuts.
The fear is that Trump and his followers will never give way, that he will remain the head of a “Trumpian government in exile”, as the historian Sean Wilentz puts it, antagonistic to the legitimate, elected government, armed with allies in Congress, sustained via social media and nourished by grievance and the romance of a lost cause: a new, virtual Confederacy.
The word is apposite because, inevitably in America, so much of all this turns on race. When Trump’s cheerleaders locate the supposed voter fraud in Philadelphia or Detroit, their listeners get the message: it’s that black cities are corrupt and, at root, that black people shouldn’t be allowed to decide who gets to be president of the United States. As Barack Obama writes in his upcoming memoir, these are “dark spirits” that have “long been lurking on the edge of the Republican party – xenophobia … paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward black and brown folks”.