August 13, 2020

Trump is Going Postal on Our Democracy

Trump’s going postal on our Democracy. We have a plan for that. Laurence Tribe, Joshua Geltzer, and I set out a strategy to derail his 3-part attack on the November election in this article in the Atlantic.

“As President Donald Trump reflects on his sinking approval ratings and grows more desperate by the day, he’s been floating a dictator’s dream: postponing the November election. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Trump loyalists, including the Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi, swiftly rejected this authoritarian fantasy. So Trump has retreated to a fallback position: casting doubt on the legitimacy of any election he doesn’t win. That starts by inventing fables about how voting by mail invites massive fraud and interminable delay—except, Trump now tells us, in Florida, where Trump’s elderly supporters will surely rely on it.” [Read More]