(HW Bush Appointee) Opinion: The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election

[In It to Win It]

CNN

Fewer still understand why former President Donald Trump and Republicans persist in their long-disproven claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Much less why they are obsessed about making the 2024 race a referendum on the "stolen" election of 2020, which even they know was not stolen.

January 6 was never about a stolen election or even about actual voting fraud. It was always and only about an election that Trump lost fair and square, under legislatively promulgated election rules in a handful of swing states that he and other Republicans contend were unlawfully changed by state election officials and state courts to expand the right and opportunity to vote, largely in response to the Covid pandemic.

The Republicans' mystifying claim to this day that Trump did, or would have, received more votes than Joe Biden in 2020 were it not for actual voting fraud, is but the shiny object that Republicans have tauntingly and disingenuously dangled before the American public for almost a year and a half now to distract attention from their far more ambitious objective.

That objective is not somehow to rescind the 2020 election, as they would have us believe. That's constitutionally impossible. Trump's and the Republicans' far more ambitious objective is to execute successfully in 2024 the very same plan they failed in executing in 2020 and to overturn the 2024 election if Trump or his anointed successor loses again in the next quadrennial contest.

[Chipper Chat]

1. I think Don Junior is going to be the nominee

With Tangerine Papa's blessing

[Irish_Dem]

2. Don Jr will be the VP.

So if Trump dies in office, Junior will be Prez.

And Junior can rig the election, and do what Pence would not do.

[world wide wally]

3. What it is really about is the spoiled, overweight rich kid can't stand to be

told "no" for anything he wants.

[SoonerPride]

4. I don't think enough people are as worried about this as they should be

People keep telling me it can't happen.

I say it can and most likely will.

[geardaddy]

5. Exactly

I remember in 2016, people saying that there is no way Cheetolini would get elected. I even doubted it myself.

[Ohioboy]

6. I remember people warning that Trump wouldn't leave office peacefully

And I remember many saying that would never happen.

[SoonerPride]

7. Exactly.

We underestimate how evil and ruthless and insane and craven these people are.

They will do anything. They will say anything.

They do not respond to laws, shame, facts, or logic.

The only thing that stops them is sheer force.

[Mr. Ected]

8. The wheels of justice turn way too fucking slowly

If they don't pick up the pace, we'll be the ones ground exceedingly fine by the fascists who wish to destroy our democracy.

[Nululu]

9. They believe Trump lost the election because ...

voters weren't "real" Americans. They think only fascist white male nationalists should vote.

Expect them to lock up and kill anyone who disagrees with them. Because that's how dictatorships work.