BlueQAnon: WashPost Rationalizes Violence Vs. Trump II

Breitbart ^ | 11 Oct 2022 | NEIL MUNRO

[SoConPubbie]

American society will collapse into argument and violence if Donald Trump is reelected president, says a Washington Post article.

The Post‘s article gives its liberal readers slasher-movie thrills (“Trump Nightmare on 16th Street”), cultural flattery, and a lot of apocalypse theory for QAnon-style chatter during the fall and winter:

“I think it would be the end of the republic,” says Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz, one of the historians President Biden consulted in August about America’s teetering democracy. “It would be a kind of overthrow from within. … It would be a coup of the way we’ve always understood America.”

But the BlueQAnon article’s “nightmarish scenarios of democratic dominoes” also rationalizes election-denial violence by comfortable-class liberals against a duly-elected and populist Trump II administration:

Activated rage would not be limited to Trump supporters. A narrow or dubious Trump victory would inspire massive, potentially violent protests on the left. “Then the MAGA, violent, January 6th-style extremists would take that as the signal to rise up,” [Larry] Diamond says.

“This is not going to be something that’s just done by one side; that’s why the risk of political violence is so severe,” [David] Becker says.

… Another assumption that the right makes which is erroneous is that they’re the only ones who have guns [said Timothy Snyder] … They may be carrying more weapons than the other side, but there are so many weapons in the United States, and there are plenty of people who are not on the right who have weapons, and there could be many more very quickly.”

“This time Trump’s got a hack Defense Department and moves to repress,” says [Steven] Levitsky, the Harvard professor. “We know that repression of protest very often triggers the escalation of protests; it could get very ugly, very quickly, under Trump.”

[SoConPubbie]

The article describes the unforgivable Trump II priorities as:

Execute drug dealers. Move homeless people to tent cities. Eliminate the Education Department. Restrict voting to one day using paper ballots … reinstitute an effective ban on transgender people serving, and dismantle ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts that his Senate allies already lampoon as “woke” … “withdraw all U.S. forces from Germany. … And depending on his views of Putin and the conflict in Ukraine, he might just stop the flow of arms, ammunition and material to Kyiv.” … harsh measures to counter illegal immigration. “America will not be known as the place of the Statue of Liberty but rather as the place where there’s a big wall at the border,” says Vanessa Cárdenas …

[Bishop_Malachi]

Activated rage would not be limited to Trump supporters. A narrow or dubious Trump victory would inspire massive, potentially violent protests on the left.

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If the Left gets violent, then simply arrest them as “insurrectionists” and treat them the same way the Jan. 6th protestors got treated. What’s good for the Right is good for the Left, eh?

[BenLurkin]

Just to be clear:

The Left is saying that it will be a “coup” if the American people vote a pro-American candidate into office.

In other words, that an ordinary election is somehow a “threat to democracy”.

[Orosius]

The Left spent most of 2020 burning down city centers all over the country, violently assaulting police and law abiding civilians alike, destroying historic monuments, besieging federal and local government buildings, and carving out illegal “autonomous zones “ for themselves. All of it to create an atmosphere of chaos and terror to get Biden “elected”. But I’m supposed to worry about Trump supporters maybe getting a mite fractious? Scuse me while I grab my smelling salts.

[Chode]

careful what you wish for there suckhole... (+)

[Sgt_Schultze]

The "professor" quoted is a certifiable extremist nut. He just penned a slobbering review of the Haberman book, where he helped to embellish the bluster written by the jealous reporterette - link.