TRUMP IS NOT ONLY UNQUALIFIED, HE’S NOW BECOMING DANGEROUS

…The Supreme and Appeals Courts got it right about over-ruling the states voter ID laws

 

You just watch, if Trump loses in November, he will immediately yell “foul” and that the election “was rigged”.

 

With all the brouhaha that is going on in the GOP about the bizarre antics of their presidential nominee, it’s time for the rest of us to start being concerned if Donald Trump should lose in November, which is looking more possible in the polls every day.

 

I say this because, Donald Trump seems to be realizing that he may in fact not win in November.

 

We already know that the one word that Trump never wants to be applied to him is being a “loser”.  And Trump is now repeating the following at all of his rallies: “The election is going to be rigged.”

 

No, he’s not saying “it might be rigged”, or that, “there may be some monkey business going on,” no, he’s not saying anything like that.

 

Trump is flat out saying, “The election is going to be rigged”…..period!

 

Now, just think back to when the Bush v Gore decision was made in the 2004 election.  A decision that had ended up in the Supreme Court.

 

What would have happened if Al Gore hadn’t made a gracious concession to George W. Bush?

 

The Democratic nominee had won the popular vote in the United States.  Gore could have easily had every reason to believe that, but for a botched state election and a stupid poorly designed “Butterfly Ballot” in Florida, Gore would have won the electoral college majority as well.

 

But Gore, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision, he spoke of meeting with Bush, “so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we’ve just passed.”  He then gave the 1860 statement of Sen. Stephen Douglas, who had been defeated by Abraham Lincoln.  “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism,” he then added, “This is America, and we put country before party. We will stand together behind our new president.”

 

Sorry folks, but for a man that doesn’t believe in ever apologizing to anyone, and someone who is a bigot, a narcissist, and a racist, I don’t see this kind of response coming from a losing Donald Trump.

 

As one opinion writer for The Post wrote, “As much as Republicans sought to ensure President Obama’s failure from the moment of his election, their animus toward a President Hillary Clinton would be that much greater — even without Trump piling on. Clinton would enter office as a more divisive figure; after all, the GOP argument that she is disqualified to hold the office, whether by virtue of Benghazi or emails, which preceded Trump’s ‘Crooked Hillary’ attack”.

 

Look at it from the Republican’s point-of-view if Hillary wins:

 

 

>> Republicans will have been shut out of the White House for three elections in a row, that’s for the first time since 1948.

 

 

>> If Hillary wins, the trend of the nation could also allow the Democrats to re-take the Senate.

 

 

>> In the 2018 mid-terms, 25 Democrats and independents that caucus with Democrats, will face reelection, but only eight Republicans will be running.

 

 

>> This could easily keep the House in the GOP’s hands.  As it was with Obama, this would give the GOP every incentive to impede Clinton’s initiatives. 

 

Trump has already started to get his supporters to begin thinking of what to do if “the election is rigged”, and Trump loses. 

 

In using totally false information, at one of his rally’s, Trump said about President Obama in 2012:  “The president lost the popular vote by a lot and yet won the election. We should have a revolution in this country,” Trump proclaimed this in his stump speech, although in 2012, Obama had won both the popular vote and the electoral college.   Then a few minutes later Trump said: “The phony electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser won!  We should march on Washington and stop this travesty.”

 

Just think about the 2016 Trump ugliness from a losing nominee who rouses supporters by claiming that the election was somehow stolen.  We would have a recipe for political conflict and potential street fighting of a totally un-American variety.

 

Al Gore’s gracious concession to George W. Bush should be what we think of in dealing with this kind of issue. 

 

I can almost guarantee you that if Clinton wins in November, Trump will not take the “Al Gore” approach to being on the losing end of the election.

 

I say this because in his recent interview with The Post’s Philip Rucker. Trump gave a classic Trumpish comment when Mr. Rucker had asked: “The United States has a tradition in which losers concede graciously and try to get their supporters on board like Al Gore did in 2000. Would you?”

 

Trump responded with the following: “I don’t want to jump the gun. I don’t want to talk about that. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t be surprised if the election . . . there’s a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged.”

  

Trump’s so called idea of “evidence” of rigging is the string of recent court rulings invalidating voter-ID laws, and the current phantom menace of voter fraud. “The voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development,” Trump claimed to Rucker. “We may have people vote 10 times.”

 

Of course, of the 126 million votes in the 2012 American presidential election, only 35 votes were found to be due to “voter fraud”.  No, not 3500, or 350 votes, just 35 single votes.

 

The Supreme Court rulings that Trump refers to were decisions where the court ruled that the voter ID laws were targeted at people to keep them voting legally.  In fact, in the South, the ID and voter rules were focused at working minorities such as stopping voting after hours, voting on Sundays after church, and limiting voting locations in areas where minorities lived.

 

There is no such evidence as Trump suggests. The provisions of the North Carolina restrictive voting law was stated by the court to “impose cures for problems that did not exist” and the appeals court ruled accordingly.

 

Trump’s attitude and his statements are ludicrous and dangerous.  He does pose a real threat to our democratic system that for centuries has allowed the ruling parties to change by the voting choice of the American citizens and to make that change peacefully.

 

Now that Trump has made a statement that suggest violence against Hillary, what are we to expect if she wins?

 

The threats that Donald Trump proposes could upset a peaceful democratic system that was developed, and has worked for 240 years.

 

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