An Election About Elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : President Joe Biden says the past will repeat itself if former President Donald Trump is returned to power and Trump says, "Yes, and ..."The sanctity of democracy isn't exactly a stirring argument to convince self-interested pragmatists, especially those who -- like many Americans -- already have dim views about the fairness and functionality of our system.
43% : Again, here, Trump is obliging the incumbent by basically agreeing with the premise.
43% : The Supreme Court will soon consider whether state officials can bar Trump from office for his efforts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power in 2021.
40% : The pressure will come mostly from Trump and his supporters, but Democrats will array themselves against the system, too, with claims of disenfranchisement or in opposition to rules established by the other side.
24% : In this telling, Trump, embittered by his defeat and now in absolute control of a Republican Party purged of dissenters, would be free to seek revenge against his enemies and impose radical new policies.
23% : And as Republicans plunge into a primary fight of still unknown duration, it seems certain that, at least to some degree, Trump will be rehearsing his general election claims about a rigged system and massive fraud.
18% : If Trump underperforms by any significant margin, which would mean getting a plurality of the vote rather than an outright majority, things will surely get ugly.

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