Mr. Trump prepares his base to reject the election outcome

[solarbird]

This is really bad. His supporters also plan voter intimidation, and then violence if they lose. Mr. Trump is actively formenting both.

Trump says the election is rigged — and his supporters are furious

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They believe what Trump has told them over and over, that this election is rigged, and if he loses, it will be because of a massive conspiracy to take him down...

Trump is actively stoking fears that a core tenet of American democracy is also in peril: that you can trust what happens at the ballot box. ... And if Trump doesn’t win, some are even openly talking about violent rebellion and assassination, as fantastical and unhinged as that may seem.

"If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it," Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. "We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would do whatever I can for my country."

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"Trump said to watch you precincts. I’m going to go, for sure," said Steve Webb, a 61-year-old carpenter from Fairfield, Ohio.

"I’ll look for . . . well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American," he said. "I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous."

Comments

[alatefeline]

Terrifying.

[solarbird]

Not calming, at least, no.

[enotsola]

I walked past a TV playing Fox News, and even they were like "this is horrible. No matter what, our country has transitioned smoothly from one president to another. Talk like this is not what we're about"

fuck that

[solarbird]

the hell it's not

it's all they've been about for the last eight years