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If the legislatures of those states fail in their deus ex machina campaign to secure Trump's reelection and truly believe that it was stolen, I have a hard time seeing how they are not honor-bound to declare civil war.
I'm not saying that they will. Just that they should have a duty to.
That said, if they do succeed in their ploy, I have a hard time seeing how the other side is not honor bound to declare civil war either.
That said, if they do succeed in their ploy, I have a hard time seeing how the other side is not honor bound to declare civil war either.
The charges on both sides are essentially that the opposing party has trampled across the rights of half the country. Both sides are essentially accusing the other of plotting/attempting/executing a coup.
These aren't charges that can be legislated or adjudicated away.
And if one side or the other or both view it as simple politicking, I don't think they've properly considered that a good portion of the citizenry do not see it as such. It's quite real. It's not going away. No matter who polishes a seat in the oval, it will remain unresolved.
The illusion of choice in a democracy—at least in terms of its continued stability—is probably more important than anything else. That's out the window if the leadership says "we earnestly believe it was stolen, but we did all we could, see you in 2022."
Likewise, the Democrats can't say "well, we won fair and square but they stole it from us by using technicalities and there's nothing we can do." Both sides could try, but you're still going to be left with millions of radicalized citizens.
This should be obvious, but maybe I'm expecting too much from a class of people that haven't yet realized that on rare occasions rhetoric does actually have consequences.
So we're going for the "uhhh just forget about the whole thing...please" strategy.
Or the "man, I wish you didn't ask me this" strategy: https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1338618195884843008
