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A Second Term for Trump Would Be a Tipping Point for Democracy [1]

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Date: 2022-10-11

Despite leading an administration that will live long in infamy, for smashing centuries old norms, upending the Constitutional foundations of the country, and stirring the worst impulses of his base, Donald Trump still retains the support of the Republican political class, and many Republican voters. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 47% of Republicans and Republican leading independents, want Trump to be the Republican nominee. He is easily the most popular Republican leader. With recent polling showing that Trump could edge out Biden in 2024, we should be very concerned about the fate of democracy in America.

A Reign of Vengeance

The typical response to this is that, in Trump’s first term, the system held on and prevented the creation of a dictatorship of the kind that Trump has fawned over in Brazil, Hungary, Russia and North Korea. Added to that, Trump would not be able to tap into conservatives who served in his first term, holding their noses while doing so, in the misguided belief that they could control him.

That, however, misses the point: a second term for Trump would see a more experienced leader who understands the levers of power, and who will see his first term as a missed opportunity for “draining the swamp”. Trump has never accepted that he lost, and if he wins again, he will unleash a reign of vengeance on his enemies, and ensure that the system is more favorable to him going forward.

We can expect Trump to fire the FBI Director, Christopher Wray, and politicize the FBI. He would once again have the opportunity to pad the conservative supermajority in the Supreme Court. He could also politicize the Department of Justice and use it to go after his enemies.

A More Trumpian Administration

In addition, because so many traditional conservatives won’t serve him, Trump will have a more Trump cabinet in 2024, than he had in his first term in office. Rather than cabinet secretaries restraining him, what we will see is a cabinet that will cheer him on. With Republicans such as Liz Cheney flushed out of the party, the Republican party has very few leaders who do not support Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election.

Many groups are already working to create a government-in-waiting of Trump loyalists, who would be ready on Day One to govern with him. This, they believe, would prevent the hiring and firing that occurred in his first term in office.

Trumps’ second term in office could prove to be a tipping point for democracy in America.

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