I guess they just cannot help themselves. The leadership of the Democratic Party - and virtually all the presidential candidates -- have gone off the rails. The Party's center of political gravity has shifted beyond the philosophic far left into the nutty paranoid extreme.
The latest example is found in the recent comments of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She has expressed concern that if President Trump is defeated for re-election in 2020, he may just refuse to surrender power. In other words, she is suggesting that Trump would engineer a coup against an incoming Democrat President.
Such fears usually emanate from the tin-hat fringe on the extreme extremes of the political left/right continuum. The "nut cases" as they are commonly called by rational political observers. Unfortunately, these kinds of off-the-wall statements carry an unfortunate air of credibility when made by leaders who are supposed to be rational, responsible and ethical - even with their partisan biases.
Judging from the reactions on social media, a whole bunch of folks are taking what Pelosi says seriously. Either they are being duped by her supposed credibility as a prominent political leader, or there are a lot more tin-hat folks than I would have ever believed. I am personally shocked by some otherwise intelligent friends who are picking up on Pelosi's engineered fear-mongering.
Even if you are sufficiently paranoid to believe that Trump would attempt such a thing, you should be able to figure out that it would be impossible. Not improbable, but impossible. One person cannot produce a coup. It requires support from the military, the person's own ...More
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