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Not only that, but pretty much every countermeasure you could take to stop them would be twisted by them as "evidence" that they were right in the first place.
It's like the 100,000 election "observers" (read: saboteurs) they're recruiting: the role of an election observer is to raise objections in case of problems. But if they're going to fraudulently raise objections to nonexistent problems, there's no counter to that. You can't just get another 100,000 election observers from the other party to try to stop them, because their role is also to raise objections. There's no such thing as an observer actively not-raising a not-objection. It's an asymmetric tactic in the MAGA fascists' favor.
Yes. It's going to get ugly. I'm hoping it's a huge blowout for Harris but even then, Trump's cult will deny reality and react violently.
The scariest part for me is SCOTUS helping Trump get away with it. I worry that there are too many Americans who are too comfortable/stupid/in denial to fully appreciate the long-term implications of what's happening, and that the thin veneer of legitimacy a corrupt SCOTUS could give a Trump coup would stop them from doing what would need to be done.