Will he go? : Trump and the looming election meltdown in 2020

Will he go? Trump and the looming election meltdown in 2020

Lawrence Douglas

Book - 2020

"It doesn't require a strong imagination to get a sense of the mayhem Trump will unleash if he loses a closely contested election. It is no less disturbing to imagine Trump still insisting that he is the rightful leader of the nation. With millions of diehard supporters firmly believing that their revered president has been toppled by malignant forces of the Deep State, Trump could remain a force of constitutional chaos for years to come. WILL TRUMP GO? addresses such questions as: How might Trump engineer his refusal to acknowledge electoral defeat? What legal and extra-legal paths could he pursue in mobilizing a challenge to the electoral outcome? What legal, political, institutional and popular mechanisms can be used to stop hi...m? What would be the fallout of a failure to remove him from office? What would be the fallout of a successful effort to unseat him? Can our democracy snap back from Trump? Trump himself has essentially told the nation he will never accept electoral defeat. A book that prepares us for Trump's refusal to concede, then, is hardly speculative it is a necessary precaution against a coming crisis"--

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Subjects
Trump, Donald, > 1946-
Presidents > United States > Election > 2020.
Presidents > United States > Transition periods.
Published
New York, NY : Twelve, Hatchette Book Group 2020.
Language
English
Main Author
Lawrence Douglas (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
x, 146 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781538751886
  • Introduction
  • Part 1.
  • Chapter 1. November 3, 2020: The Greatest Fraud in History!!
  • Chapter 2. Trump Rejects Defeat
  • Chapter 3. Trump Rejects Victory
  • Chapter 4. Elections the Authoritarian Way
  • Chapter 5. The Peculiar Beauty of Conceding Defeat
  • Chapter 6. So Much for Our Norms
  • Chapter 7. Lies, Damn Lies, and Meta-lies
  • Chapter 8. The Sweet Air of Legitimacy
  • Chapter 9. Bootstrapping Meta-lies into Institutional Realities
  • Chapter 10. The System Cannot Protect Itself
  • Part 2.
  • Chapter 11. The Electoral College Revisited, Alas
  • Chapter 12. A Constitutional Anachronism
  • Chapter 13. Catastrophe No. 1: Faithlessness
  • Chapter 14. Catastrophe No. 2: Hack Attack
  • Chapter 15. Catastrophe No. 3: Big Blue Shift
  • Chapter 16. Can the Crisis Be Contained?
  • Chapter 17. Republicans Reject Democracy
  • Chapter 18. The Only Check
  • Acknowledgments
  • Endnotes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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