With less than a month to go until Election Day, the American people and the world will soon find out if the epic that is the Age of Trump is about to be over or if they will be forced to suffer through a sequel featuring the various characters and spin-offs that the MAGAverse 2.0 may spawn. In these final weeks, the story that is the Age of Trump most closely resembles some type of crime novel, one in which the crimes are announced and planned in public and then committed in plain sight.
Donald Trump is amplifying the Big Lie 2.0 as he primes his MAGA followers to preemptively reject the results of the 2024 election and to engage in acts of civil unrest and violence. Trump and the MAGAfied Republican Party are also attempting to recruit tens of thousands of “poll watchers” to stop virtually non-existent “voter fraud”, i.e. to intimidate Black and brown voters. On the state and local level, through legal, extra-legal, and illegal means Trump’s agents and other MAGA supporters are also attempting to infiltrate, manipulate or through acts of outright fraud to steal the 2024 election on his behalf. As Reuters recently highlighted, this danger is especially acute in the key battleground states. Georgia is one such battleground state where a small group of local Trump election deniers are in key positions to overturn the results of the 2024 presidential election. And as they did in 2020, Trump’s agents and allies are already preparing to flood the courts with specious lawsuits to stop Kamala Harris from assuming office if she wins the 2024 election.
