Please bear with me as I struggle once again to order my thoughts in a chaotic situation. First, let's get right to the meat of the matter with the following excerpts from an illustrative essay posted at Substack on 18 November 2020 by one Alexander Macris: https://macris.substack.com/p/trump-at-the-rubicon/[excerpted text begins] Trump at the Rubicon — How the Insurrection Act and Militia Act Empower Trump to Cast the Die[... snip ...] Like Caesar, Trump now must fight for victory or lose everything. Come January 2021, will Donald Trump decide to cast the die and cross the Rubicon? He might. The same people...