Here's my prediction of how November and beyond might end up playing out.

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17. We are faced with many horrifying possibilities, those two among them, because

the gop is corrupt, cowardly, derelict, sociopathic as a group, and fundamentally undemocratic. And have been for a long time. The country and the world would not be in this position but for their complicity. They are enablers and recognize what they have to do to retain power and it does not involve a fair election process, or an objective DOJ, or a functional senate the way we used to think of them. Oversight is gone, meaning a corrupt incompetent sociopathic president does whatever he wants.

Trust this election? Given no low bar, given the interests of oligarchs all over the world, given 40 years of gop wet dreams, given the enormous power the WH/senate/DOJ wield together...I'm not sure there will be one and if there is it will be such a shit show of false flags, projection, confusion, lawsuits, threats, misinformation and suppression that most people will have no idea what is going on. Like a covid task force meeting on steroids where no one really knows how many people voted, how they voted, and who they voted for. This is a fundamental tool of the gop...misinformation and confusion. Kristol (who has a lot of bad karma to make up for):

You look at the polls and think "he can't win." But Trump's path to victory doesn't depend on persuading Americans. It depends on voter suppression, mass disinformation, foreign interference, and unabashed use of executive branch power to shape events, and perceptions, this fall.

So what are dems, pundits, journalists, and sane goprs doing about it? What can they do about it? Is there a reasonable path and hope that this won't end really, really badly? Lincoln Project is great and dems should have been doing that for years but if voters are their targets then is Kristol correct in saying the gop has a plan that doesn't involve voters?

Back to the GOP: will enough of them step up for democracy, sanity, history, the 99.9%, and principles? Or will just one or two? Seems to be in their hands, IMHO. We need to go en mass to the polls and vote like everything depends on it but I think we need a bit more than that too.