Not only can the Electoral College thwart the popular vote for president; but there are even more nefarious ways for political elites to circumvent the Electoral College if they don’t like it
The Fed so far this year has pumped more than $7 trillion into investors, bankers, and big corporations, who then conveniently diverted most of that ‘free money’ into financial markets, driving up stock price values to current record levels
If the leaders of the party now go the route of a minimalist program in 2020, as did Obama in 2009, they will no doubt come 2022 suffer a similar fate as Obama and they did in 2010. Then we will all be back to ‘square one’ with a resurgence of Trump and Trumpism once again
The 2020 election has heralded in a new decade where fundamental changes domestically and internationally will now accelerate
While Democrats are pushing voter turnout, Trump and Republicans are planning to prevent the counting of the votes
The Supreme Court of the USA, now firmly in the Trump camp with the Barrett appointment, may well prove to be one of his essential tools in pulling off that coup d’etat
Trump wants to announce a deal before the next presidential debate with Joe Biden this Thursday, only 72 hrs away
Trump has already begun moving his political chess pieces to challenge the election and refuse to leave office
Viewers of the debate learned nothing about how America might extract itself from its intensifying multiple crises. What they learned is that a political crisis may be coming, the likes of which haven’t been seen in America since 1860
Failure of the Democrats to have stopped Trump the past four years will likely usher in a basic political party re-alignment in the US as a form of authoritarian government takes hold under Trump
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