Trump is questioning the legitimacy of an election that will rely on mail-in ballots, even though he himself has often voted absentee. The evidence of the risk we face is impossible to ignore. Can he be stopped? We believe that he can be, but only if most Americans are willing to put their trust in people power - rather than courts, norms, and elites - to save democracy. Trump has a lot of tools at his disposal to steal the election if he loses, many of which he’s already putting into motion. He has openly declared that he may not abide by the election results in a nationally televised interview on Fox News. His noxious proposal to postpone the elections is not the real threat to democracy. Illustration: Daniel Greenfeld for The InterceptĮvents in Charlottesville, Lafayette Square, and Portland have shown the country that President Donald Trump is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep power, including embracing militant white supremacists and using federal troops to tear gas and arrest peaceful protesters.
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