2020 Election - The curtain starts coming down

[robkelk]

Author John Scalzi comments on the situation:
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2021/01/07/b...-we-didnt/

I see one of the comments asks where they're going if what happened yesterday wasn't the intended end-result.

I can't speak for Mr. Scalzi, but I can offer my thought on the matter.

Quoting from Wikipedia's page on Heinlein's Future History:

These stories were key points in the Future History, so Heinlein gave a rough description of Nehemiah Scudder which made his reign easy to visualize—a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long. His rise to power began when one of his flock, the widow of a wealthy man who would have disapproved of Scudder, died and left him enough money to establish a television station. He then teamed up with an ex-Senator and hired a major advertising agency. He was soon famous even off-world—many bonded laborers on Venus saw him as a messianic figure. He had muscle as well—a re-creation of the Ku Klux Klan in everything but name. "Blood at the polls and blood in the streets, but Scudder won the election. The next election was never held."

Now, replace "television station" with "blog", "off-world" with "out of the country", and "Nehemiah Scudder" with "Donald Trump's less-narcissistic but just as power-hungry successor in the GOP".

Even during the era of the two Bush presidencies, I would have thought that to be far-fetched... but today I think it's all-too-possible.