Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ® on Wednesday said 2024 will be the last election “decided by ballots rather than bullets” if former President Trump doesn’t win the presidential race because of his various legal battles.
In the latest episode of his show on TBN, Huckabee argued the legal woes now facing Trump are part of a politically motivated scheme from the Biden administration, an argument touted by many in the former president’s orbit.
“If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets,” Huckabee warned in his opening monologue.
Huckabee accused President Biden and his team of trying “to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024″ and “to destroy Trump in the courthouse rather than at the ballot box.” He also alleged the Justice Department, the IRS and the FBI are “conspiring to hide the Biden family crimes, while all the time being obsessed with charging Donald Trump with crimes.”
I’m not worried at all about a few neofascists doing suicide by cop when we have the most powerful country in the world.
So that’s why the next really dangerous step is when the law enforcement apparatus (federal and local) starts to buy into the “all Republicans are patriots, all Democrats are the enemy” mindset in a big way. On Tyranny has a really great explanation of how this happens, backed up with some really extensive research on places where it did happen and exactly how it progresses. We’re showing a lot of resilience against it in the US, but also, it’s not at all impossible.
Remember, the Nazis were a bunch of weirdos and incompetent losers too, until all of a sudden they weren’t.
I’m just not worried about that because it only applies to countries with small military/police. We have a gigantic military and police apparatus, combined with a longstanding democratic culture. There is not going to be any “civil war” in the most powerful and successful country in the world.
What these assholes will do if Trump loses (or assuming we’re not in fact still in the absolute worst timeline, rots in prison) isn’t really what worries me, so much as what these same assholes will do if Trump wins. History has some insights and they’re very worrying. Something about shirts and the color brown. While there would be a certain poetic justice for these tools to end up the same way, I rather not have to deal with the fallout of the rest of that situation. Further the implications for the rest of the world should the US go down that route are very troubling.