<— Agree with everything in this @adamserwer.bsky.socialwww.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

IS a Trump defeat at the ballot box the least destabilizing outcome for Democracy? This seems like it presumes there would be no repeat performance of 2020.

Keeping them in the ballots so they don’t shoot us is both disingenuous premise and this overall perspective conveys and extreme level of naivety

If we think nice thoughts, Billy won't send us to the cornfield. This is science.

But also, I don't think the threat of violence is particularly credible. He already took his best shot at that, and all his most ardent supporters learned from that is that he doesn't have their backs (he issued several pardons after J6, but none for them).