So after reading this marvellous posting by @Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social, this is how I think Trump is going to win the next US election

Stop here and read this, it’s a great little explainer:

https://terikanefield.com/section-3-and-the-spirit-of-liberty/

So here’s my theory:

  • The Colorado case goes to SCOTUS…
  • …who decide that 14A only prevents Trump from taking office and not from being on the ballot, so…
  • Trump goes on the ballot, the other states fold
  • Trump uses the PR to energise his base and wins narrow victory…
  • …even though he cannot take office (14A) without a 2/3 of majority of both houses
  • …leading to a multi-month “hanging chad“-style clusterfuck until Trump is due to take the oath, where he is both president-elect yet not allowed to be president
  • It gets to inauguration day and he just does it because he doesn’t care about the rules, and he plans to retrospectively nix 14A if he cares about it at all
  • The Democrats fold for the sake of national unity
  • America becomes a dictatorship, because it gets the kind of political leaders that it teaches the people they deserve.

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