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How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
>https://archive.is/Y2dEn
Alex Soros openly war gaming foreshadowing and threatening recourse with direct comms to his paid for shill army of thugs and corrupt politicians.
Whens this guy gonna get pulled off the stage?
>Some notable sections on first skim
There were many more moves and countermoves around the room. Efforts to restrain the president’s worst impulses finally dissuaded him from a full, national call-up of the Guard. The defense secretary drafted orders that were not illegal on their face. The generals saluted.
The president waved that point away, demanding that the general “restore law and order” in the cities and “defend the country against antifa.” The general tried to help him translate that language into an executable military order. The president cut in: “You’re fired, too.”
To inoculate against the human instinct to fold under pressure, friends of constitutional government should seek “pre-commitments” from potential allies to take specific, lawful actions if certain red lines are crossed. When the time comes, individuals, organizations and corporate executives can be encouraged to draw upon the courage of convictions they expressed in advance.
Trump’s biggest “center of gravity,” his essential source of strength, is public opinion — including those well beyond his strongest supporters. Many of our participants agreed that public sentiment can set boundaries on abuse of power. But the democracy coalition will need a communications plan far more extensive than anything it has organized in the past.
Democratic self-defense may rest, in the end, on the demonstrated will of the American people — expressed, if necessary, in persistent, large-scale protest — to reject authoritarian rule. Agents provocateurs and deepfake videos will attempt to discredit orderly and lawful expressions of dissent, and peaceful protest might be met with authoritarian violence. Americans have overcome that before and might have to again.
It will not be a roll of the dice, as it was in the games, that decides the ultimate outcome. Friends of our constitutional republic may need to defend it implacably, by every lawful means.