Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional …
If he gets back in, why not end the world before his second term is up? He can’t get re-elected so no need to show the level-headedness, restraint and tact he’s known for.
Invade Mexico, get bogged down in a forever war with more convenient flights home while on leave. Tell the world that now we’re cool with kicking down your neighbor’s door to break their stuff. Russia Russias all over the internet about it because Ameri-Ukrainian bio-engineered super soldiers or something, the CCP invades Taiwan (everybody else is doing it, why can’t we?), probably a bunch of other conflicts that won’t hit the front page while the adults are squabbling. Iran steps up their attacks on the US while Russian and Chinese money and materiel flood into Mexico to support their defense. Red-hat chicken-hawks too old to get drafted eat it up, approval ratings outside the echo chamber take a nosedive. Now faced with the possibility of losing an unpopular war, Donnie can either accept it with grace or knock down all the sandcastles on the beach on the way out and be The Last President. Which do you think he’d choose?
“Trump never took us into a war.” – Trump fans. And yet he and his people keep talking about war.
War at home no less…
If he gets back in, why not end the world before his second term is up? He can’t get re-elected so no need to show the level-headedness, restraint and tact he’s known for.
Invade Mexico, get bogged down in a forever war with more convenient flights home while on leave. Tell the world that now we’re cool with kicking down your neighbor’s door to break their stuff. Russia Russias all over the internet about it because Ameri-Ukrainian bio-engineered super soldiers or something, the CCP invades Taiwan (everybody else is doing it, why can’t we?), probably a bunch of other conflicts that won’t hit the front page while the adults are squabbling. Iran steps up their attacks on the US while Russian and Chinese money and materiel flood into Mexico to support their defense. Red-hat chicken-hawks too old to get drafted eat it up, approval ratings outside the echo chamber take a nosedive. Now faced with the possibility of losing an unpopular war, Donnie can either accept it with grace or knock down all the sandcastles on the beach on the way out and be The Last President. Which do you think he’d choose?
I am honestly terrified that if he gets in and finds out he’s dying he’ll decide to take the world with him.