If Trump Wins in 2024, Then Who Threatens Democracy? – The Wall Street Journal

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But what if Donald Trump wins? Im referring here to the widely circulated Washington Post essay by Robert Kagan, a neoconservative pundit associated with the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations, warning that we are already in a constitutional crisis because of the certainty that Mr. Trump and his voters will reject his defeat in the upcoming 2024 election and trigger the worst crisis since the Civil War.

The alternative outcome goes unmentioned thanks to a giant lacuna that exists in half of Americas mental landscape, and in the mental landscape of 99% of the media. Mr. Kagan relies on some just-so oversimplification, but wed be foolish not to see the risk of civil disorder and legal shenanigans as high no matter who loses in 2024. Downtowns were boarded up on the eve of the 2020 race not against angry and aggrieved Trump voters. Rural riots are hardly a thing. It was in deeply blue areas that local officials feared mass violence if the election didnt turn out the way Democrats wanted.

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October 9th, 2021
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