Prescient.

Who wrote this, way back in May of 2020?

He [Trump] says the next election will be rigged, just as he said the last one was rigged when he believed he would lose it. Constitutional scholars are preparing for what happens when Trump refuses to leave the White House after losing in November. Coronavirus turmoil and Trump turmoil might rage simultaneously during a national winter of despair.

Such times. The president of the United States scurrilously promotes the baseless conspiracy theory that Joe Scarborough murdered an employee decades ago. He's ready to start shooting in Minneapolis. Twitter is now flagging his tweets as false or dangerous. Our national psyche is being thoroughly gutted, as a desperate, pathologically deranged, narcissistic president becomes increasingly unhinged. Which is saying something, after all that has transpired these past three years.

Who wrote it? I did! Here. (Some nice photos, too.) Five months before the presidential election and seven months before Trump did indeed try to remain in office after losing.

Then in October 2024, just before the next election, I wrote about "The inherent fragility of democracy"; about democracy having the property of "autoimmunity." Which is to say democracy unavoidably, by its very nature, has the inherent ability to attack and even destroy itself, analogous to how autoimmune disease attacks the physical body.

Now here we are, having become in short order a shockingly lawless country, with a manifestly lawless president, a lawlessly indifferent Congress subservient to that president, and a lawless Supreme Court seemingly beholden to that president.

It can get worse, of course, and probably will. 

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