Courtesy The Guardian

  We are on a path. What follows will be “what if” scenarios regarding that path. “If this happens we further down the path to fascism.”
  If Donald Trump runs (I think he will and justice avoided.) someone like Liz Cheney will run against him. The Republican Party: held hostage by the Trump MAGA cult) will rig it so he becomes that candidate. Trump will do what he can to trigger his violent base. She or he will be murdered. Of course Trump will claim it’s a witch hunt, some BLM or Antifa fanatic did it.
 Those he agrees with he says he will pardon. Of course he’ll do squat when it comes to but a few of his pardons. Stone again, maybe, on new charges. Maybe his sons, unless convenient to toss under bus.
  The election will be rigged for him, while he claims rigged for Biden or Harris. Unless they’re assassinated. I put nothing beyond those Trumo incites.
 Rigging is already happening. Republican states have been setting it up so if Republicans are unhappy with the results they can decide for the voters. By 2024 enough states will have enacted this law that Trump winning will be assured.
 If not enough states will have done what they could through purging too. Through eliminating voting machines, installing defective voting machines, gerrymandering to the extreme, creating long lines, installing crooked secretary of states, installing heads of voting commissions (etc)… will all that going for them, and more, Republicans have no chance of losing the presidency again.
 Some Republicans will stand up to him and shot back down; maybe literally. Think the 60’s only all those assassinations in a year or two. All done by lone wolves Trump denies he knows; even if he does. Deny influencing them, despite he obviously intentionally encourages violence.

 Trump will “win:” be installed. The Court will back all this up. The 3 to 6 Court will agree, 3-6, that they are no longer needed. They will assert, 3-6 or 4 to 5, that our forefathers originally intended for our country would become a dictatorship. Hey, they offered it to Washington, right?
 Trump will order the extermination of all those who he perceived, perceives, to be in his way.
 Do you think scenario absolutely crazy? Well, I think most people thought he’d never become president; his candidacy a joke. 80% of the sane in this country would have considered prediction of 1/6/21 to be crazy when he started running; would have considered all but peons getting away with it nuts. Considered early on in the administration the challenges would go beyond a year. Even when his beloved cyber punks announced that he lost, any minds changed? Even Jim Jones had less resistance. When he ran again did you think he would get closing on on 10 million more votes more than when running against Hillary. Despite pissing off Republicans. Despite pissing off many citizens Despite all the Never Trumpers.
 There’s a strong zombie element to the cult’s most dedicated fans, a man who somehow has ate the brains of formerly somewhat decent people.
 Have I scared you? I hope so. This November will be the start, but you can help stop the steady goosestep down the path.
 Vote.

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 Inspection is a column that has been written by Ken Carman for almost 50 years, first published in fall of 1972. Inspection is dedicated to looking at odd angles, under all the rocks, and into the unseen cracks and crevasses, that constitute the issues and philosophical constructs of our day: places few think, or even dare, to venture.
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