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Dozens of interviews with people deeply familiar or involved with the election process point to a clear consensus: Not only could Trump make a second attempt at overturning an election he loses, he and his allies are already laying the groundwork.
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The electoral college almost guarantees him a win, it was specifically designed to ensure the slave states always kept power, which is why when they finally lost in 1861, the first thing they did was flip the table.
We really needed to let those states leave, would have been the best thing to ever happen to this country, the trash take themselves out.
We shouldn’t have let them leave, we should have kept reconstruction going until 2050.
I think reconstruction would have gone a lot faster if we’d handed the plantation owners to their slaves and walked away.
They’ve been inciting racial violence for political ends ever since.