Once SCOTUS surprised everyone (even Team Trump) with their immunity decision, this is the first thing I thought of.
Trump sued 50+ times when Biden won. And that was just for a "normal" election without switching candidates. They're already testing shit out.
24 years. The project of stealing the 2000 election from Gore was so startlingly successful it's become the defining element of conservative strategy bsky.app/profile/jonf...
The totally predictable cost of not punishing the prior coup attempt swiftly and harshly is that we are going to have a more organized and better prepared coup attempt bsky.app/profile/paul...
Trump will try to litigate is way into office no matter what, and the MAGA Court will be sympathetic to Trump regardless of the merits of the case. Democratic leaders need to have contingency plans for what to do when the MAGA Court tries to install Trump as POTUS.
I keep going back to the Petain trial in 1946. Despite some real issues with constitution of the court and the age/role of the Defendant, the French understood that SOME sort of court process had to take place to punish treason, and weren't fussy about "rules" as long as it had democratic legitimacy
It is why I will never stop hating Ralph Nader
(and have never respected Michael Moore's or Tom Morello's political opinions).
They treated 2000 as a "both sides are the same election" and they were dramatically, galactically, stupendously, wrong. And many of us knew it at the time.
The election-stealing schemes in 2020 failed because there were too many close states and most of them were past Biden's tipping point. Had it come down to ONLY Georgia or ONLY Pennsylvania or ONLY Arizona we might have seen Bush v Gore used as a precedent after all.
my pollyanna-ish view of the future is that the 2000 election radicalizes Dems the way the Nixon resignation radicalized the right but as you say we're a quarter-century in and there's no evidence that that kind of broad organization, strategic planning, or message/voting discipline is happening.
