The riots are merely a dress rehearsal for the Left
It's been hard to miss the steady drumbeat of articles and think-pieces over the past few months about Election Day war games and post-election planning underway on the left, rooted in obsessive fears that President Trump will refuse to accept an electoral loss, triggering a constitutional crisis and maybe even widespread civic unrest, all in a desperate attempt to cling to power.
"The Left Secretly Preps for MAGA Violence After Election Day," reads a recent
headline at The Daily Beast. "Is Trump Planning a Coup d'État?" asks another recent
piece at
The Nation. "Is America in the Early Stages of Armed Insurgency?" frets
Slate. Similar pieces have run at the
Washington Post ("The election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis"),
The Atlantic ("What might he do? What should Americans fear?"),
Vox ("Imagine that... Donald Trump refuses to concede defeat"),
The New Yorker ("Trump's threats about rejecting the results come November are not idle"), and on and on.
The news hook for most of these articles is a series of elaborate election war games hosted in June by a newly formed organization called the Transition Integrity Project, touted by the media as a bipartisan group of experts consisting of former elected officials, high-level government staffers, consultants, and journalists like David Frum, who wrote the
Atlantic piece referenced above.
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