“If Trump gets reelected, all bets are off on the Constitution surviving the tests he’ll throw at it,” he said. Instead, Trump actively used the threat of violence, and then actual violence in the Jan. 6 insurrection, to try to coerce then-Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers into giving him a second term in office. AdvertisementAs Trump’s term progressed, more and more of his original staff departed, to be replaced by those whose primary qualification appeared to be personal loyalty to him. And this time, Trump could have a much stronger incentive to not leave office. “If Donald Trump is elected president in 2024, there is literally no predicting the future of representative democracy in America.

Source: Huffington Post August 12, 2023 15:17 UTC