Trump changes his "mind?"
After bleating for years about mail-in ballots, apparently Trump has flipped:
"The 2024 presidential candidate remains critical of various forms of early voting, advisers say, but his campaign is nonetheless mounting an effort to pursue such votes after Democrats excelled at doing so in recent elections. His team is studying state laws governing absentee and mail-in voting as well as ballot collection, called “ballot harvesting” by critics, in which third parties gather and turn in votes, people familiar with the effort said. …
"Mr. Trump highlighted the move in a fundraising email this week, saying, “The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and walk away with elections that they NEVER should have won. But I’m doing something HUGE to fight back.”
"The email added, “Our path forward is to MASTER the Democrats’ own game of harvesting ballots in every state we can. But that also means we need to start laying the foundation for victory RIGHT NOW.”"
What's up with this? Has Trump decided to embrace participatory democracy after all? Seems doubtful to me.
Here's my take. Trump's long-time advisor, Steve Bannon, has advocated the strategy of "flood the zone with bulls***." His goal, like that of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917, is to discredit democracy and make autocracy appear to be the only path to order. So I suspect the plan here is to flood the ballot counting in 2024 with huge numbers of fake ballots, then claim that the election was corrupt and call upon the state legislatures to appoint GOP electors.
My track record in prophecy is quite mixed, but my track record in cynicism is unassailable. Stay tuned!
"The 2024 presidential candidate remains critical of various forms of early voting, advisers say, but his campaign is nonetheless mounting an effort to pursue such votes after Democrats excelled at doing so in recent elections. His team is studying state laws governing absentee and mail-in voting as well as ballot collection, called “ballot harvesting” by critics, in which third parties gather and turn in votes, people familiar with the effort said. …
"Mr. Trump highlighted the move in a fundraising email this week, saying, “The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and walk away with elections that they NEVER should have won. But I’m doing something HUGE to fight back.”
"The email added, “Our path forward is to MASTER the Democrats’ own game of harvesting ballots in every state we can. But that also means we need to start laying the foundation for victory RIGHT NOW.”"
What's up with this? Has Trump decided to embrace participatory democracy after all? Seems doubtful to me.
Here's my take. Trump's long-time advisor, Steve Bannon, has advocated the strategy of "flood the zone with bulls***." His goal, like that of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917, is to discredit democracy and make autocracy appear to be the only path to order. So I suspect the plan here is to flood the ballot counting in 2024 with huge numbers of fake ballots, then claim that the election was corrupt and call upon the state legislatures to appoint GOP electors.
My track record in prophecy is quite mixed, but my track record in cynicism is unassailable. Stay tuned!
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