The vote of the electors is on Dec 17th. Their refusal to vote for Donald Trump, while potentially illegal, would actually be binding. The incoming Congress could still flip the result back, but that would also be illegal. The states choose electors and the electors choose the President. Full stop.
So how would we convince electors that are almost always party loyalists? Give them a preview of a Trump presidency. Deport immigrants NOW (or preferably they GTFO on their own), raise tariffs NOW, stop enforcing regulations NOW, start Trump policies right NOW! Make this the worst Thanksgiving in a decades and make Christmas look just as bleak. Once he’s in the only way Trump will leave is voluntarily (ha!) or if one of his hirelings stands up to him.
So your plan is to subvert democracy to save democracy?
Pretty much. This is CrazyIdeas.
I hate to say this, but if the general populace actually gave a fuck, there would already be riots and revolution.
People just don’t care. The status quo, keeping things stable on the surface is all people give a fuck about.
So that’s where we are. There just aren’t enough people willing to rise up and fix shit. It didn’t happen after Mr Floyd got murdered on camera, and it ain’t happening now.
It’s a slippery slope.
What must happen is for Biden to start doing official acts.
That’s the most unrealistic part of this idea: Biden acting like Trump is a threat to the Constitution and not just another Republican.
Eh. At this point, it’s either that, or living in dread that that fucker will try something even shadier (and more effective) than his little Jan 6 toy coup.
Wouldn’t there be riots in the streets if faithless electors changed the result of the U.S. presidential election?
Certainly a crazy idea.
Unless the riots start before the electors vote.
That’s still a month away. A lot of crazy shit can happen in that time.
Preventing this disaster is the only excuse for their continued existence. They’ve already failed in that duty, once, before this same criminal idiot tried defrauding the process entirely, and then sending an angry mob.
And hey, if Republicans are on-board to get rid of it, after that - great.
