Distinguished Writer in Residence Masha Gessen Explores 2020 Election Scenarios Presented in Lawrence Douglas’s Book Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020
“The ragged end of his Presidency, if it comes, will be full of conflict and resentment. There will be no orderly handover, no constructive transition—a disastrous prospect during a pandemic and a deep recession, and yet another blow to our perceptions of how elections and government operate,” writes Gessen in the New Yorker. “This is the best-case scenario. The worst case, as Douglas’s three catastrophes illustrate, is a close or contested result of the vote, which leads to a constitutional implosion and an explosion of violence.”
Post Date: 07-28-2020
Post Date: 07-28-2020