What Happens If Trump Runs and Loses Again?

Will he go quietly…will THEY, the Trump voters, go quietly?

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Trumpists, the MAGidiots, claim that they don’t regard Trump as the modern-day Jesus. There is one problem, however, with this proclamation: They’re lying, or maybe they can’t see what the rest of us see. The same emotions and feelings they experience when praying to Jesus are as unforgiving as the ones with which they regard Trump. 

This is why the exact description applied to Trump — the second coming of God, a devil, or just a sinner with the possibility of repentance and finding God before he dies — is irrelevant. 

The energy these not-so-bright and desperate people put into worshipping Trump is no less white-hot and blindly passionate than the kind that Germans in Nazi Germany felt for Hitler and North Koreans feel for Kim Jong-un. The love MAGidiots feel is irrational. It borders on hysterical, and they accept everything about Trump with the same kind of blind faith that used to be preserved only for Jesus — and Santa in childhood. Trump is their “gospel truth.” 

If Trump claims voter fraud, then that means that voter fraud existed. If Trump says a loss in 2024 suggests that “they” stole the election again, a theft not only from him but his followers also, then guess what? They will believe him without even a split second of doubt. They will deny their brains the natural impulse for rationalization. They will reject an intellectual reckoning with the truth because intricately woven conspiracies are safer offering something for everyone, like a well-stocked buffet at a Sizzler Steakhouse. 

 If Trump is losing, most of us who have been awake for the past three years know that his ranting and raving will commence before the last polls in California close. We also know that all of his infected followers will believe his wildest, off-the-wall lies about how truckloads of Biden votes were seen being dumped into machines while his votes were being carted off to the Arizona desert.

They will believe that the two-time loser was again cheated. What, however, are our expectations of what these people, many who sleep with guns in their tighty-whities — they like the feel of the metal pressed against their junk because it makes them feel bad — do next?

Are we ready for this? Is U.S. law enforcement ready? Is the F.B.I. already monitoring the chatter, which I am sure has already begun to buzz like a misplaced cellphone lost in the couch cushions? 

Trump concedes peacefully 

There is a chance — and I am Frosty the Snowman — that Trump will look into the camera and declare his defeat legitimate and fair. Let’s pretend that his kids somehow managed to slip some sedatives into daily doses of Coca-Cola, and by the time the electoral college declared him a loser again, he was as dopey and lethargic as Jack Nicholson at the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. 

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There is a chance this could happen. What most likely won’t happen, however, is that the MAGidiots will accept a second Trump loss peacefully. Many of the loons are hard-core pseudo-Jesus freaks — ‘pseudo’ because they live not in the way of Christ but instead represent evil— and so they will regard a Biden win as the rise of Soddom and Gomorrah and thus worthy of a violent reaction to weed out the evil before God descends on Judgment Day.

A combination of Trump critics and national security experts have been fearing that the 2024 presidential election could also be followed or proceeded by violence — a possibility that journalist/author Spencer Sunshine examines in a report published by The New Republic on January 4.

Sunshine, author of the forthcoming book “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege,” explains, “Observers of the far right are keenly aware of the movement’s continuing strength. For years, many hoped the forces unleashed by Trump’s ascent in 2016 would reach a point of sudden collapse, as had happened in the past.… But this has not been the case, and even in the absence of new high-profile events, the far right’s activist base has continued largely unfazed under President Biden (Mass Casualty Event).”

We have all lost loved ones to the Trump sickness. Even relatively moderate Trumpists have gone so far off the edge that it becomes impossible to talk to them about anything. They are always trying to bring up the far-fetched conspiracies of Trump at every opportunity — family dinners, brises, funerals, lunches, Christmas Day celebrations — to prove to everyone in earshot that the teachings of Trump are glorious. These people, and we all know them, are off their collective rockers. Most of these people, though, are not violent and not prone to violence. There is an army, however, of Trump-diseased, morally rotten citizens, ready and waiting to launch a civil war.

“David Neiwert, author of ‘The Age of Insurrection,’ says that although he thinks it is unlikely that Trump will win, if he doesn’t, his ‘hardcore supporters are going to engage in acts of domestic terrorism,’” Sunshine warns. “If he is convicted and sentenced to jail time, Neiwert believes they may even go so far as to ‘try and break him out’ of prison. Journalist Teddy Wilson, publisher of Radical Reports, is only a little less circumspect, saying that ‘another mass casualty event’ like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168, is ‘hanging in the air.’ And Professor Amy Cooter, author of ‘Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the U.S. Militia Movement,’ says she ‘would not be shocked’ by violence following the election — although she hesitates to say it would be a certainty (Mass Casualty Event).”

2024, regardless of how we slice it, will be a turning point. Are we ready for the country’s direction, starting from November 6th at 00:01?