Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020

Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020

by Lawrence Douglas
Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020

Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020

by Lawrence Douglas

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Overview

In advance of the 2020 election, legal scholar Lawrence Douglas prepares readers for a less-than-peaceful transition of power.



It doesn't require a strong imagination to get a sense of the mayhem Trump will unleash if he loses a closely contested election. It is no less disturbing to imagine Trump still insisting that he is the rightful leader of the nation. With millions of diehard supporters firmly believing that their revered president has been toppled by malignant forces of the Deep State, Trump could remain a force of constitutional chaos for years to come. WILL TRUMP GO? addresses such questions as:
How might Trump engineer his refusal to acknowledge electoral defeat? What legal and extra-legal paths could he pursue in mobilizing a challenge to the electoral outcome?


What legal, political, institutional, and popular mechanisms can be used to stop him?


What would be the fallout of a failure to remove him from office? What would be the fallout of a successful effort to unseat him?


Can our democracy snap back from Trump?


Trump himself has essentially told the nation he will never accept electoral defeat. A book that prepares us for Trump's refusal to concede, then, is hardly speculative; it is a necessary precaution against a coming crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538751886
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 05/19/2020
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He is the prize-winning author of seven books, most recently The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part 1

Chapter 1 November 3, 2020: The Greatest Fraud in History!! 3

Chapter 2 Trump Rejects Defeat 7

Chapter 3 Trump Rejects Victory 11

Chapter 4 Elections the Authoritarian Way 13

Chapter 5 The Peculiar Beauty of Conceding Defeat 19

Chapter 6 So Much for Our Norms 23

Chapter 7 Lies, Damn Lies, and Meta-lies 29

Chapter 8 The Sweet Air of Legitimacy 33

Chapter 9 Bootstrapping Meta-lies into Institutional Realities 39

Chapter 10 The System Cannot Protect Itself 43

Part 2

Chapter 11 The Electoral College Revisited, Alas 49

Chapter 12 A Constitutional Anachronism 57

Chapter 13 Catastrophe No. 1: Faithlessness 61

Chapter 14 Catastrophe No. 2: Hack Attack 81

Chapter 15 Catastrophe No. 3: Big Blue Shift 93

Chapter 16 Can the Crisis Be Contained? 105

Chapter 17 Republicans Reject Democracy 111

Chapter 18 The Only Check 115

Acknowledgments 119

Endnotes 121

Index 135

About the Author 147

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