*Fear of a Trump-led insurrection is overblown* Many people are worried about the immediate aftermath of a Harris victory on November 5. Trump has indicated he won’t accept the legitimacy of electoral defeat and will once again rally his followers to challenge the results. But just as the effort to prevent congressional certification of Biden’s victory failed, so it will with Harris – only more decisively.
Unlike 2020, Democrats control the levers of federal government. The Justice Department is run by Biden; so is the National Guard, and so is the U.S. military. Biden is renowned for vacillation, but I have little doubt he has on his desk a sheaf of papers outlining the procedures for calling out the National Guard or invoking the Insurrection Act if post-election protests threaten the integrity of the transition. Indeed, his prerogatives have grown since the recent Supreme Court decision, Trump v. United States, granting presidents absolute legal immunity for acts taken within the scope of their official duties. The ruling was awful, and tailored to protect the felonious ex-president, but turnabout is fair play. If fascist paramilitaries like the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, or AP3 <https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent> storm the capital, they will be stopped – and it won’t be pretty. https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/25/what-if-harris-wins/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33158): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33158 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109211882/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
