Questions: Post Election/Pre-Inauguration

 

A few "facts" (remember those?)

• The Trump presidency has been marked by a near total disregard for legal (and other) traditions.

• There is a fair chance he will be defeated next Tuesday, though results may be slow in coming.

What could he do in the interim, the period after his defeat but before Inauguration day? And would anyone be able & willing to block him from doing so? Remember he now has a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the U.S. Senate---at least until January 3rd when the new Senate, possibly with a Democratic Majority, meets for the first time. The U.S. House has a Democratic Majority, and that's not likely to change.

And don't expect 2020 Democrats to act like Al Gore in 2000, and roll over and play dead:

"Democrats say that a strategy of reticence is a thing of the past. One Democratic veteran assured me that the Democratic Party of today is “totally different” from the Party of 2000: “Much less institutionally focused, more ideologically grounded, and uncompromising. There is zero chance that anybody is going to say at some point that it’s better for the country that we settle the matter now, give in, and then try to win in four years. No one thinks that another four years of Trump is survivable. The campaign believes this is an existential battle.”

                                       Jeffrey Toobin* article in The New Yorker

*Yes, I know about Toobin's Zoom "event". The above was written before then, if that gives it any more legitimacy.

One week to go.