Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, business owners in cities throughout the United States were seen boarding up their establishments to prevent the property destruction they knew was coming if former President Donald Trump won. Having lived through a summer of civil unrest that resulted in an estimated $1 to $2 billion in property damage, they weren’t taking any chances.
As it happened, President Joe Biden, the preferred candidate among the liberal elites, was declared the winner, and the “all clear” went out. Business owners protecting their establishments from arson, vandalism, or looting was no longer necessary. Republicans, after all, don’t typically resort to violence when they’re angry.
Four years later, not only is America much diminished, but it is closer than ever to becoming a socialist nation. Although it’s become the centerpiece of the Democrats’ 2024 campaign, most politicians don’t believe Trump poses an existential threat to our democracy. In July, during a conversation with the Bulwark’s Tim Miller, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein revealed that top Democrats privately admitted to him that Trump is not actually a threat to America’s democracy.
“I’ve had top Democrats say to me, basically, say something like, ‘I don’t know why all these Democrats who think Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy are acting the way they are. But the reason I’m acting the way I am is because I don’t think that,’” Klein said.
These Democrats have admitted, he added, that they can “live with Donald Trump winning.”
So, what will happen if Trump wins the election? There will probably be riots. And congressional Democrats, perhaps led by the likes of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), will exhaust all efforts to disqualify him from serving.