The Left Is Setting The Stage For A Coup If Trump Wins

Guest Post by John Davidson

The Left Is Setting The Stage For A Coup If Trump Wins

Under the guise of planning for right-wing violence if Trump loses, Democrats are gaming out how to steal the election if Trump wins.

It’s been hard to miss the steady drumbeat of articles and think-pieces over the past few months about Election Day war games and post-election planning underway on the left, rooted in obsessive fears that President Trump will refuse to accept an electoral loss, triggering a constitutional crisis and maybe even widespread civic unrest, all in a desperate attempt to cling to power.

“The Left Secretly Preps for MAGA Violence After Election Day,” reads a recent headline at The Daily Beast. “Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État?” asks another recent piece at The Nation. “Is America in the Early Stages of Armed Insurgency?” frets Slate. Similar pieces have run at the Washington Post (“The election will likely spark violence—and a constitutional crisis”), The Atlantic (“What might he do? What should Americans fear?”), Vox (“Imagine that… Donald Trump refuses to concede defeat”), The New Yorker (“Trump’s threats about rejecting the results come November are not idle”), and on and on.

The news hook for most of these articles is a series of elaborate election war games hosted in June by a newly formed organization called the Transition Integrity Project, touted by the media as a bipartisan group of experts consisting of former elected officials, high-level government staffers, consultants, and journalists like David Frum, who wrote the Atlantic piece referenced above.

In other words, the Transition Integrity Project is a cross-section of our elite ruling class. In its own executive summary of the war games, the group states it was founded “out of concern that the Trump Administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process” — never mind the many ways Democrats in Congress and the executive bureaucracy, aided by the media, have been doing just that since before Trump won the 2016 election.

The exercise mimicked the kind of war games sometimes conducted for foreign policy crises, only this time the format was applied to the presidential election, with one team playing the Biden campaign and the other the Trump campaign. The outlandish outcome of these simulations—that in the event of a close election, Trump might “federalize the National Guard and take military control of state voting sites,” as Frum writes — tells us less about what is likely to happen in the real world and more about the mendacious worldview, toxic prejudices, and treasonous imaginings of the elites themselves.

In one of the simulations, a scenario similar to 2016 was gamed out, with Trump losing the popular vote but winning the right combination of states for an Electoral College victory. John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman and a top adviser to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, played the role of Biden. According to Ben Smith’s account of the simulation in the New York Times, Podesta-as-Biden refused to concede, saying his party wouldn’t let him and instead alleged voter suppression, persuading the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send Biden electors to the Electoral College.

“In that scenario, California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede from the United States if Mr. Trump took office as planned,” writes Smith. “The House named Mr. Biden president; the Senate and White House stuck with Mr. Trump. At that point in the scenario, the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do.”

The Left Is Engaging In Political Blackmail

Whether they realize it or not, Podesta and Frum and the others are acting out a present-day version of the election of 1860, only they’re playing the role of the secessionist South. Indeed, well before Abraham Lincoln won the election, even moderate “unionist” southern leaders warned that their states would secede if the vote didn’t go their way. It amounted to mass political blackmail, and after Lincoln’s decisive victory the South followed through on its threat. For slave states, the Union was conditional, not perpetual, and Lincoln’s election violated their conditions.

Once southern states began seceding — South Carolina was the first to go, less than two months after Lincoln’s victory and three months before he even took office — the long-burning question about the constitutionality of secession had to be answered. For Lincoln and most other northerners, the answer had always been obvious. The “central idea” of the Union, said Lincoln, “is the necessity of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose.”

We now seem to be on the cusp of relitigating the question, only instead of slaveholding southerners blackmailing the country with secession, it’s anti-Trump Democrats and left-wing radicals threatening to tear the country apart if Trump wins in November. For them, the Union is conditional, and Trump’s reelection will violate their conditions.

What do they have in mind? Not exactly an 1860-style secession, state-by-state, but something more immediately disruptive. Depending on the circumstances the day after the election, they might contest the results and trigger lengthy litigations and ballot recounts, working in the meantime to come up with enough absentee ballots to put Biden over the edge. In that case, while the lawsuits and recounts are underway, the left plans to do what it’s been doing for months now: take to the streets.

Last week, an initiative called the Fight Back Table, a coalition of more than 50 left-wing groups that got together after the 2016 election, met to formulate a plan of action in case no clear winner emerges after Election Day. Of course, “no clear winner” is something for which the left has been rhetorically preparing the country under the guise of ensuring all the mail-in ballots are properly counted.

The group “began charting out what it would take to stand up a multi-state communications arm to fight disinformation, a training program for nonviolent civil disobedience, and the underpinnings of what one official described as ‘mass public unrest,’” according to a report by The Daily Beast. One person familiar with the discussion said the goal was to figure out how to “occupy shit, hold space, and shut things down, not just on Election Day but for weeks.” By now, we all know what that means.

Perhaps more disturbing than the possibility of organized mass riots and looting is the open fantasizing among Democrats, including Biden himself, about the role the military might play in a contested election. Biden has felt free to ruminate, more than once, on the possibility of soldiers dragging Trump out of the White House if he tries to “steal the election.”

In June, Biden boasted that the military “will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.” Later, his campaign released a statement saying, “the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.”

 

This isn’t normal campaign rhetoric, and it belies a feverish mindset on the left going into November that any outcome except a Biden win—by any means necessary—won’t be legitimate. That’s why Hillary Clinton has publicly urged Biden not to concede “under any circumstances.”

Indeed, paranoia and an assumption that any action by the Trump administration to ensure the integrity of the election is tantamount to stealing it pervades our elite class. The Transition Integrity Project’s war games played out various scenarios, utterly divorced from reality, in which team Trump “succeeded in invoking the Insurrection Act and sending active-duty military troops into US cities to ‘restore order,’ ‘protect’ voting places, or confiscate ‘fraudulent’ ballots.” In another scenario, Attorney General Bill Barr ordered “the seizure of mail-in ballots to ensure that vote counting would stop.”

All this tells us much more about the mindset of the people running the simulations than it does about what Barr or Trump are likely to do in November. The left simply cannot imagine an election in which Trump doesn’t win by cheating, hence they’ve decided they will accept only one outcome. Rahna Epting, executive director of MoveOn and a participant in the Fight Back Table discussions, told The Daily Beast, “It is very obvious that Trump is laying the groundwork for claiming victory no matter what.”

This is doublespeak. What should be obvious by now is that a broad coalition of left-wing groups is laying the groundwork to reject the results of the November election if Trump wins and claim victory, no matter what. The same left-wing groups that have been fomenting riots and street violence for months will again mobilize, only this time they won’t be calling for the abolishment of the police but the effective abolishment of popular government—an end to our constitutional system, and with it, an end to the republic.

Alas, this kind of electoral hostage-taking isn’t new. In the months before the 1860 election, southern leaders and newspapers warned in explicit terms that electing Lincoln would mean disunion, perhaps even war. “Let the consequences be what they may—whether the Potomac is crimsoned in human gore, and Pennsylvania Avenue is paved ten fathoms deep with mangled bodies,” declared one Georgia newspaper. “The South will never submit to such humiliation and degradation as the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.”

Most northerners thought this was just bluster, that Lincoln’s election would never lead to actual war and bloodshed. They badly underestimated how lightly the South regarded the Union, and what southerners would do to the country to be rid of it. They should have taken the South at its word.

Now, 160 years later, we face what could be a similar crisis. There’s a rich irony in the elite assumption that post-election violence will come from “right-wing militias” or “vigilante groups,” when the last three months of rioting and looting by Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists have in some ways been a dress rehearsal for what the left is planning in November. You don’t need to read between the lines to understand this, you just need to take these people at their word.

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Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday
22winmag - TBP's Jewish Yankee Mormon Sh1tp0$ter
22winmag - TBP's Jewish Yankee Mormon Sh1tp0$ter

Another columnist pretending this is a contest that depends on things like issues, voter turnout, and the electoral college.

Sorry.

No.

They’re just going to install whoever they want and the 25th Amendment is always there to put the next asshole in office with essentially no recourse.

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TC
TC

Exactly right. This election, like every election, is determined by which pair of corrupt assholes will be better for Israel and the jewish community. Trump has given Israel everything it wants, but Biden has said they will give Israel everything it wants, but with no strings attached! What a deal!

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Yes, we know already. Tell us something we don’t know, like what are we going to do about it or why aren’t we doing something about it. Why aren’t we even discussing what we can do about it besides wait for the election?

oldtimer505
oldtimer505

Amen Fleabaggs. Like you suggest, we need to discuss what can be done.

John
John

I think that the steady gunfire around me daily indicates that some people have already decided what must be done. They’re not coon hunters.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

I would tell most of you privately what I would or wouldn’t do. I’m not going to give these numbskulls any ideas publicly.
Be creative. We all have guns and that’s a big part and they must be sighted in and available. However, I imagine we can do a lot more by coming up with ways of denying movement, boobytraps and so forth. Look at the bigger picture beyond field of fire or beaten zones. How would a group travel to wherever you are defending? How could you make that a journey straight from Hell? Then prepare to do it if it becomes necessary.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

H&R
“I imagine we can do a lot more by coming up with ways of denying movement, boobytraps and so forth. Look at the bigger picture beyond field of fire or beaten zones. How would a group travel to wherever you are defending?”
Exactly. These kinds of things can be discussed in a general way and provide ideas and ways of contact..I have been trying for 10 years to get people to begin planning for this day. So far on TBP you and I are the only ones discussing it. I already have mine in place. I have nothing more to gain by continuing the discussion but I want to be able to look God in the eye and say I tried to get the unprepared prepared. Most of us knew this day was coming 10 years ago.

Nobody
Nobody

Does someone need to tell you what to do about it? If so, that is the same thing that is wrong with the people generally. They need to be told what to do which is exactly what puts you into a losing strategy.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Fuk you asshat. Learn to read and get back to us. That was a statement not a question.

Fedup
Fedup

Well the fears that Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn held while listening to the struggles in the stairwell is likely one reason that nobody will talk about it.
The other possible reason is that they believe it’s all hype and that things will return to normal after the election, no matter who wins.
Lastly, they don’t want to rock the boat because they have money and material things that they’ve hoarded that trump any principles. Therefore they will ultimately sit on the fence and join whatever side is winning in the end.

Nobody
Nobody

Not it’s not. Almost everyone is total dumbasses. How do you think we ended up in this mess? Almost all are clueless what to do about.

I already did what needed to be done. That is part of the reason all this shit is happening. If everyone thinks they can commit misprision while criminals enslave themselves and there won’t be divine justice levied for all of those crimes then the people do not comprehend the law.

The law is simple, you either uphold or you get the consequences of not doing so. It’s not someone else’s job to bring the criminals to justice who are enslaving you, it’s your job. Don’t do it and you reap what you sow -crime. It is a felony for allowing a felony criminal to continue to commit the crime.

Ginger
Ginger

Matthew 2:18
“In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.”

There is a payment due for the shedding of all the innocent blood, a reaping of what one sows.
Churches are closed, but the abortion of thousands a week continue.
The bombing of Syria continues.
This Country is awash with the blood of others.
And if one thinks they are immune to the coming judgement just remember this.

Matthew 5:45
“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”

Prepare all you want, but the battle will will won in prayer.

Statism Is A Cult
Statism Is A Cult

Left stages coup against Trump = BAD
Trump stages coup against Venezuela = GOOD

overthecliff
overthecliff

This is going to be an interesting end of the year. End of an era and maybe the end of a nation.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

As many often say, the left always accuses you of what they are doing or intend to do.

Articles of Confederation

Addiction counselors call it “projection”. Either way is spot on.

pb
pb

The de-legitimatising of election results (regardless of provenance) is straight from the intelligence/colour-revolution playbook.

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