CavsKermit: What I worry about after that SCOTUS decision is Trump giving a series of escalating commands until someone in the chain decides to grab the wheel. There was a few hours on 1/6 where the brass decided the best course of action was to treat Pence as POTUS.

Trump’s re-election will mean four hideous years of the GOP playing constant Civil War Chicken at best - as this Heritage Foundation ghoul made clear - and actual civil war at worst. Avoiding that bloody nightmare is a pretty damn good reason to suck it up and vote for Biden.

What I worry about after that SCOTUS decision is Trump giving a series of escalating commands until someone in the chain decides to grab the wheel. There was a few hours on 1/6 where the brass decided the best course of action was to treat Pence as POTUS.

cards on the table, I would prefer a military coup which executes trump to trump

I'd prefer neither option.

Tough but fair.

Yeah I really do think there was a soft counter-coup that no one will ever admit to having done.

There clearly was, and the real danger in what SCOTUS has done is that they've removed the soft part as an option. If the legal system provides no downstream remedy for criminal conduct by the executive, then the historical examples for how a body politic deals with it aren't great.

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