my opinion for a long time has been that there is going to be bad trouble with this election. I mean PHYSICALLY. I knew it a good two weeks before the 2020 election and it was pretty obvious it was going to be on January 6th.
the trouble this time feels much more vague and amorphous. if Biden wins, there's gonna be the same trouble (altho…
my opinion for a long time has been that there is going to be bad trouble with this election. I mean PHYSICALLY. I knew it a good two weeks before the 2020 election and it was pretty obvious it was going to be on January 6th.
the trouble this time feels much more vague and amorphous. if Biden wins, there's gonna be the same trouble (although TFF no longer CONTROLS anything except his army of morons with automatic weapons). a genuine, better-planned siege and god knows what. and as you've said several times, WE would have the better weapons, but are those weapons really appropriate for a civil war that's not defined by any geographical?
there's a big essay by Sean Wilentz in the latest NYRB in which he makes a solid, angry case for the Disqualification Clause to be invoked. in his case, it means something because Wilentz is one of the more careful, conservative (in the best sense) of the left-wing historians of my generation. in my own case, two other things make me like Shawn Wilentz. the first is that his dad owned the best of all NYC bookstores and the second is that he's the officially appointed Bob Dylan Historian. let me try to post the link, again praying there's no paywall.
he's quite correct to say that a lot of talk against using the Disqualification Clause by people who should know better is their fear of the violence that would occur. I was, I confess, a little bit on THAT chickenshit side until I read this. isn't it best to have the bad shit NOW? it's gonna be a lot stronger when (and if) The Loser once again LOSES. I realize this is a terrible thing to say, but these are terrible times.
my opinion for a long time has been that there is going to be bad trouble with this election. I mean PHYSICALLY. I knew it a good two weeks before the 2020 election and it was pretty obvious it was going to be on January 6th.
the trouble this time feels much more vague and amorphous. if Biden wins, there's gonna be the same trouble (although TFF no longer CONTROLS anything except his army of morons with automatic weapons). a genuine, better-planned siege and god knows what. and as you've said several times, WE would have the better weapons, but are those weapons really appropriate for a civil war that's not defined by any geographical?
there's a big essay by Sean Wilentz in the latest NYRB in which he makes a solid, angry case for the Disqualification Clause to be invoked. in his case, it means something because Wilentz is one of the more careful, conservative (in the best sense) of the left-wing historians of my generation. in my own case, two other things make me like Shawn Wilentz. the first is that his dad owned the best of all NYC bookstores and the second is that he's the officially appointed Bob Dylan Historian. let me try to post the link, again praying there's no paywall.
he's quite correct to say that a lot of talk against using the Disqualification Clause by people who should know better is their fear of the violence that would occur. I was, I confess, a little bit on THAT chickenshit side until I read this. isn't it best to have the bad shit NOW? it's gonna be a lot stronger when (and if) The Loser once again LOSES. I realize this is a terrible thing to say, but these are terrible times.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/22/the-case-for-disqualification-trump-sean-wilentz/