Polls now show that Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election, but what if Trump refused to lose?

Commentators quickly pointed out that neither Kushner nor Trump has the legal power to postpone the presidential elections unilaterally and it is possible that Kushner, a incompetent neophyte dangerously out of its depth just I did not understand as y our comment he would be understood

Kushner’s commentary points out that Trump does not believe that ordinary rules apply to him. When Trump ran for president in 2016, he refused to say he would accept the election results if he lost. At the time, Republican strategist Steve Schmidt described it as “a clear and present moment of danger for our constitutional order, for the republic”. Academics recognize unfounded refusal to accept legitimate election results as an authoritative warning sign.

Now, as president, Trump has real power at his disposal. For Trump, the rules are for “little people” (to paraphrase his New York real estate rival, Leona Helmsley). We should expect Trump to do whatever he thinks it will take to stay in power, if he can get away with it. For example, Trump suggested that former President Barack Obama and the alleged Democratic candidate Joe Biden both must be imprisoned

. In ordinary times, it would be almost unthinkable for a sitting president to make such baseless statements, and if he did, we would expect bipartisan allegations of such threats. In our reverse age, we know that Republicans will remain silent.

When planning for a possible event, jurists gathered recently to discuss what would happen if the election results were challenged this year. Academics worry about possible “constitutional collapse if [Trump] and its staunchest partisan allies seek to disrupt or ignore the counting of votes and the transfer of presidential power. “

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None of this is a source of despair. In fact, there may be a tendency to overestimate Trump’s ability to dictate the results. The fact that Trump thinks he can get away doesn’t necessarily mean he can. For example, Trump secretly tried to pressure the President of Ukraine to illegally tilt the dynamics of the 2020 elections in his favor. But Trump has been arrested, charged and, although he remains in power, the scandal launch another cloud

about his awkward presidency.

Just as it is a mistake to see Trump as an all-powerful figure who can undermine elections at will, it is also a mistake to ignore the threat posed by Trump. Obviously, you do not feel bound by the standards or even the rules that support the constitutional democracy of the United States. We also know that the systemic controls we generally assume will work to set limits on presidential power have often not worked for Trump.

We know who Trump is and what he is capable of trying. Therefore, Americans should be on their guard to defend American democracy from the next possible steps Trump could take to undermine it. The steps to follow include:

• Journalists should ask Trump if he thinks he has the power to postpone the election, if he still believes, as he did in 2016, that he should not accept the results if he loses, and if he thinks that Obama, Biden or other political opponents could be detained. The fact is that no one should expect Trump to say the right thing, it is that Trump is registered.

• Republican members of Congress should ask themselves the same questions. These questions could be difficult to ask Republican senators during elections (for example, Maine, Colorado, Arizona). Having some Republicans (perhaps Utah Senator Mitt Romney) say that Trump does not have that authority would certainly be helpful.

• Eminent Republicans who are not in power, for example George W. Bush, Bob Corker, Nikki Haley, must express their support for our constitutional democracy. They should make voters understand that Trump cannot postpone the election, cannot dismiss his results without foundation if he loses, and cannot order the imprisonment of his political opponents. This could help put pressure on current Republican members of Congress and could send a message to the public that these are not common partisan issues.

Our democracy does not work automatically, nor is it invulnerable to efforts to undermine it. Whether it succeeds and lasts depends on all of us.