This seems overly charitable to someone who literally tried to overturn a fair election and ticked all the boxes of a wannabe-autocrat back in 2018 already (as described in the excellently researched How Democracies Die). I don’t think Trump will be able to stay in power without elections, but imo he’s likely to try something (if his health allows it). This seems like standard dog whistling tactics to me, but of course I can’t prove that.
It not about being charitable, it’s about what is the most straightforward explanation. I agree he is anti democratic, but this is not an example of that, and it makes it harder to convince people when you lump true and false things in together.
This seems overly charitable to someone who literally tried to overturn a fair election and ticked all the boxes of a wannabe-autocrat back in 2018 already (as described in the excellently researched How Democracies Die). I don’t think Trump will be able to stay in power without elections, but imo he’s likely to try something (if his health allows it). This seems like standard dog whistling tactics to me, but of course I can’t prove that.
It not about being charitable, it’s about what is the most straightforward explanation. I agree he is anti democratic, but this is not an example of that, and it makes it harder to convince people when you lump true and false things in together.