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Last week, Donald Trump essentially told us exactly what he will do this November. When reports start coming in that the Democrats are winning this fall, he will send in the troops. <\/p>\n

Read more DC insiders torch Trump official\u2019s new scandal as \u2018how to lose a presidential election\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

He\u2019ll point back to last night\u2018s speech and tell the nation: <\/p>\n

\u201cI told you so. I warned you. They rigged the election for the Democrats and now I have to stop it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He\u2019ll mobilize ICE and the National Guard\u2019s \u201cRapid Reaction Force\u201d that he\u2019s assembled over the past six months to seize ballot boxes and crush the inevitable \u201cinsurrection\u201d \u2014 protests in the streets against his seizing ballot boxes \u2014 by \u201cleft-wing communist radical domestic terrorists.\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019ll declare a state of emergency, invoke his NSPM-7, and blame it on a foreign country and\/or \u201cAntifa.\u201d He\u2019ll declare protesting a crime, and tear gas will fill our streets. <\/p>\n

This is easy for me to imagine: I was there in 1967 when Lyndon Johnson did nearly the same thing, although for an entirely different purpose, and I\u2019ve worked in several countries where this very scenario had already played out.<\/p>\n

And those same white supremacists Trump has already pardoned can also easily imagine how it should play out when he calls them out to attack protesters; they\u2019ve been terrorizing minority communities for centuries and are very good at it.<\/p>\n

This includes his tens of thousands of well-armed loyalist cult members who\u2019re salivating at the idea of splitting that $1.776 billion they believe they\u2019ll get when he seizes absolute control of the country. <\/p>\n

As Senator Amy Klobuchar said on MSNOW last night: <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a man desperate to hold onto his power and he will do anything<\/em> to keep that power.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would he actually be so audacious as to try that? Could he actually pull it off?<\/p>\n

He could, he will, because he\u2019s already tried it once. <\/em><\/p>\n

The difference is that six years ago \u2014 the last time he tried to overturn an election he lost \u2014 his Attorney General, FBI Director, Director of National Intelligence, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, DHS Secretary, and Chief of the National Guard would all have refused such an order, so he called on thousands of violent thugs to attack the Capitol, stop the election certification, and murder the vice president.<\/p>\n

This time, in a classically Putin-esque move, he\u2019s replaced all of those people with lickspittles like Blanche and true believer fanatics like Miller and Homan who\u2019ll do exactly what he tells them to.<\/p>\n

Many of them sat in the room with him last night, in the front row in front of the teleprompter, watching and nodding along with his lies. They know that if Democrats win and the election is certified this fall many of them, too, will end up on the wrong end of civil and criminal investigations.<\/p>\n

Trump has recently declared, officially, that Democrats are traitors, communists, potential terrorists, and should be deported. The only thing he hasn\u2019t demanded is for Democrats to be arrested for our politics, and that may well come in just a few months.<\/p>\n

After all, he can\u2019t afford to allow the House or Senate to fall into Democratic hands, because then he\u2019ll be investigated with the power of law and subpoena for the many crimes he is currently committing. <\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t survive that politically, and he believes the Senate this time will actually convict him: they know that once he\u2019s convicted and has thus lost his power, there\u2019s no way he can regain it and he\u2019ll no longer represent a threat to their political careers. <\/p>\n

This is all why he\u2019ll say or do anything<\/em> to hang onto his power, because he knows if he loses that power his entire house of cards collapses. <\/p>\n

He and his children go to prison or are forced into exile. His wife gets to reinvent her life the way she wants. What\u2019s left of his properties gets sold off at auction like his casinos were the last time he went bankrupt.<\/p>\n

This is what he\u2019s imagining at 2 o\u2019clock in the morning when he\u2019s rage tweeting. He\u2019s also remembering the terrifying hours he spent sitting in a courthouse charged with 34 felonies for which he could go to prison. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy for him to imagine, because it\u2019s exactly what he constantly tries to do to people he thinks have slighted him, from Jim Comey to Leticia James to Adam Shiff and dozens of others: he tries to break them financially while threatening them with long and brutal imprisonment. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s done this repeatedly, and his most recent threat to break or jail somebody was issued the day before yesterday.<\/p>\n

Read more Psychologist exposes Trump\u2019s signs of \u2018sundowning\u2019 in big new speech<\/a><\/p>\n

But none of what he\u2019s planning works without a lot of ordinary people saying, \u201cYes,\u201d and that\u2019s also where we may have a say.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the thing about these operations that gets lost when we talk about them as if they\u2019re just the work of one man, America\u2019s Hitler, to quote JD Vance. It\u2019s never one man who pulls the whole thing off, although it does take a lying psychopath with charisma and some leadership skills to get the process rolling. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, though, it can\u2019t work without the National Guard captain who decides the order is lawful enough, the county clerk who hands over the machines because a federal agent showed her a piece of paper, the local cop who puts on the riot gear because his sergeant did, and the poll worker who turns his ballots over to masked ICE agents because it feels safer. <\/p>\n

My friends who were there in Germany in 1933 told me, as does history, that that country didn\u2019t fall to a majority; the Nazis never got a legitimate victory at the ballot box. <\/p>\n

That nation fell, as others have throughout history, because tens of thousands of people in unremarkable jobs did the small thing that was asked of them in the moment it was asked, and told themselves it was only temporary<\/em>, and it must be okay because somebody higher up must know something I don\u2019t<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Every one of those people made that decision cold, under pressure, with a stranger in a uniform standing in front of them and about four seconds to think.<\/p>\n

Which is why the useful work right now isn\u2019t reactive, and it isn\u2019t something we do in November. It\u2019s finding out, before November, what the people around us are going to do. <\/p>\n

\u2014 Go meet your county election officials; they\u2019re mostly your neighbors, and in a lot of counties they\u2019re the ones who\u2019ll be standing between a federal agent sent by Trump and a ballot box with nobody backing them up. <\/p>\n

\u2014 Ask your sheriff, on the record, at a public meeting, whether he takes orders from Washington or from the county. <\/p>\n

\u2014 Ask your state legislators what the plan is if the National Guard shows up, because most of them probably haven\u2019t thought about it and they damn well should. Ask your governor and state attorney general.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Find out which lawyers in your town do election work and whether they\u2019re organized. Get to know the people on your block well enough that you can call them at midnight, if necessary. <\/p>\n

\u2014 Get to know your local elected officials and, in the few months ahead, show up at your local Democratic Party meeting.<\/p>\n

People who\u2019ve already decided what they\u2019ll do, and who know that the folks around them decided the same thing, behave completely differently when the moment arrives than people who are trying to figure it out on the spot. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not optimism. It\u2019s just how it\u2019s always worked, in Selma and Kiev and Manila and everywhere else people have looked at an illegal order or an out-of-control authority figure and said, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

What matters most in the next four months is going to happen at the local level, in county commission meetings and election offices that nobody\u2019s watching. <\/p>\n

Read more Trump biographer exposes real scheme behind new Pentagon stunt<\/a><\/p>\n

Go be somebody who\u2019s watching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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