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More import­ant, it’s likely to shift atten­tion away from the much greater threat. First, it could demor­al­ize some poten­tial voters by making them fear, wrongly, their votes won’t matter anyway.

(To be clear, the Trump admin­is­tra­tion does­n’t have the power to suspend or cancel the elec­tion, which can only be done through an act of Congress).īut we should­n’t let this kind of author­it­arian power-grab scen­ario become the prime focus of media and public concern about the elec­tion. Mean­while, Jared Kush­ner declined to confirm, when asked recently, that the elec­tion will be held at all. His recent barrage of false tweets about mail-in voting - “Demo­crats are trying to Rig the 2020 Elec­tion, plain and simple!” he wrote last month - appears clearly aimed at dele­git­im­iz­ing the vote in advance, and there’s evid­ence that this effort is having the inten­ded effect on some of his support­ers. There are numer­ous examples of his utter disreg­ard for the rule of law, from the abuse of power that led to his impeach­ment to his unpre­ced­en­ted attacks on peace­ful protest­ers exer­cising their First Amend­ment rights. Trump has several times “ joked” about serving more than his consti­tu­tion­ally permit­ted two terms, and has often expressed admir­a­tion for author­it­arian lead­ers who have side­lined demo­cracy to stay in power. Unfor­tu­nately, there’s good reason for the concern, and the plan­ning that’s being under­taken by Demo­crats and good-govern­ment advoc­ates to address scen­arios like these is neces­sary and import­ant. Trump “may well resort to any kind of trick, ploy, or scheme he can in order to hold onto his pres­id­ency,” Bob Bauer, a veteran Demo­crat elec­tion lawyer and Joe Biden’s personal attor­ney, has said. In case you didn’t have enough to worry about, oppon­ents of Pres­id­ent Trump are start­ing to go public with a fear that has long lurked just beneath the surface of Amer­ica’s polit­ical conver­sa­tion: that he will refuse to accept the legit­im­acy of an elect­oral defeat, or use some extra-legal means to stay in power, trig­ger­ing a consti­tu­tional crisis.

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