It’s only January and the 2024 election is still 10 months away. However, is it possible that we’re unknowingly living in the last and final days of American democracy?
Politics :
Not many Americans are thinking about politics and the election just yet, but the truth is that American democracy — as we know it — could be dead by this time next year. How, you ask?
With Ron DeSantis now out of the race (and others to soon follow), Donald Trump is all but assured of seizing the Republican nomination for President of the United States. However, myriad court cases against him combined with multiple state initiatives attempting to remove him from the 2024 ballot (for provoking an insurrection) could quickly throw everything into unprecedented chaos.
The MAGA movement and the ‘Never Trump’ movement are each extremely passionate about their positions for or against ‘The Donald.’ So, it’s virtually impossible for the US to hold an election in 2024 where the results are accepted by everyone and where the country will simply go on with its everyday lives with no hard feelings.
What’s more probable is that the US is on a collision course similar to the Titanic — and there’s no way around it.
Let’s take a look at 4 possible scenarios that could happen in 2024:
- Donald Trump is convicted in 1 or more of the legal cases against him and is ruled ineligible to run for president.
- The US Supreme Court acknowledges that states have the right to remove Donald Trump from their election ballots.
- Donald Trump runs for president and is re-elected.
- Donald Trump runs for president and loses to Joe Biden.
Regrettably, each scenario is potentially explosive and likely to be met with extreme pushback and probable violence from conflicting forces.
If Trump is convicted of a crime in 2024 or if the courts allow states to remove him from their ballots, the MAGA klan will have a conniption fit. In fact, history suggests that their response will likely make the Capitol Hill insurrection of 2021 look like a child’s birthday party.
If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, anti-Trump forces may take desperate measures to save American democracy and prevent him from turning the US into the dictatorship he has admitted he would create.
If Joe Biden beats Trump again, it’s a guarantee that neither Trump nor his sycophants will accept the results. After all, they still haven’t accepted the 2020 results, so why would they this time around?
However, there is a 5th scenario that should provoke fear in every living American.
If the 2024 election is thrown into disarray via challenges to (for example) Trump being disqualified from state ballots and/or other bedlam, we could see a scenario where no national candidate wins a majority of electoral votes come November. That’s when the 12th Amendment to the US Constitution would allow the newly elected House of Representatives to decide who the next president would be.
If that were to happen, every state would have 1 vote and, depending on whether Republicans or Democrats are in control of the new Congress, the next president could be appointed and not elected by whichever party controls the House.
Are we ready for this almost certain impending chaos and the possibility of American democracy dissipating right before our very eyes in just a few months?
OK WASSUP! discusses Politics:
Is American democracy at risk in 2024?
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