mookiemcgee wrote:Dukasaur wrote:jusplay4fun wrote:Dukasaur wrote:Very unlikely to see the death of maga. Even if they lose (which is still an "if") they won't accept it. There will once again be months of lawsuits and protests, followed by years of gnashing of teeth, and conspiracy theories that will endure for decades.
I am not sure that Trump is THAT vengeful; he did not promote prosecution of Hillary, even after she called the election of 2016 "stolen" from her. He has indicated that if he were to lose, he will try again in 2028.
He wanted to prosecute Hilary, but wiser heads in his administration prevailed. There's a lot of crazy stuff he wanted to do, but the saner people in his cabinet prevented. Just read at some of the crazier things William Barr had to put his foot down on in the closing days. (Pretty funny, actually, when you have to count William Barr among the "saner people.")
The trouble with megalomaniacs is that their condition progresses; they believe more and more in their own infallibility and cannot be influenced. After Hitler won a few campaigns planned by his generals, he believed in his own bullshit and started completely ignoring the advice of his own generals and giving insane orders everywhere. That is the concern with Trump, that this time the sane people will not be able to restrain him and he will indulge in his crazier notions.
He's been very clear in promising no sane people in the cabinet this time around, he doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of not prosecuting his political opponents again.
No doubt you would like most to be declared 'sanity gatekeeper', ...but pathologizing your opponents is a cheap move that fools only the most gullible.