Tell a large group of not-terribly-bright heavily armed angry white men (prone to belief in alternative “information” and conspiracy theories) that the election of their candidate is being stolen by a rigged system… and what could possibly go wrong? Put it this way: if violence against women increases in domestic abuse cases around the loss of a favorite NFL team- just imagine the day after Trump loses.
As an article on domestic abuse noted in Time:
In a comprehensive survey of domestic violence calls recorded by 763 police departments in half a dozen states…that NFL losses can result in a 10% spike in domestic violence reports in the hour or so after a local football team has just suffered a loss. The volume of calls doubles when the team loses to a traditional rival, and also surges if the football team loses during the playoffs.
Trump’s bedrock of white male support comes from the same demographic that thinks carrying a loaded gun makes a good point, other than about the insanity and delusional fear (crime is actually going down) of the carrier. These are the folks who shout “Kill the bitch” at Trump rallies, use the N-Word at those same rallies, think Mexicans are rapists, and would gladly hang President Obama for treason, or just because, if they could get away with turning their slow-motion 8-year Obama lynching through obstruction and lies—into the real deal.
These are the people into racial-control via authoritarianism at best and at worst… I don’t want to even go there.
Trump is going to lose the election– barring intervention by Putin/Julian Assange or ISIS on his behalf. And Trump will make us pay.
Trump’s final solution to what will be his humiliation and his deflated-ego problem will be to say he didn’t really lose.
In other words he’ll say the system was rigged. He’s already laying the groundwork for this claim.
His lie to his followers is a slander against our democracy itself.
He will say, and is saying now, that the only way he could lose—given he’s a winner by right, right?—is if he and his supporters are cheated by the elites, the media, by Hillary and the federal government, by foreigners — whomever. He is working hard to plant that idea now as A.B. Stoddard notes in Real Clear Politics:
This week he suggested Americans pull their 401(k) funds from the stock market and is working to persuade them the results of November 8 election itself will be manipulated. His attempts to delegitimize critical functions of our democracy are highly irresponsible and potentially dangerous, but among the faithful it has been incredibly effective. Rally-goers this week, according to reports from coverage of the Trump campaign, couldn’t give a hoot about the latest maelstrom. Some believe that Khizr Kahn is not only a Democratic Party plant but doesn’t even live in the United States. This is the new, non-rigged reality.
Trump will not lose any more gracefully than he’s run. His lies and insults to a mother who lost a son to war are only the start.
And he will not care what happens to a country (in his view) that’s been too stupid to embrace him. If it burns down so be it.
Thus, expect random killings by dimwitted militia types, a cop shot here, a black passerby lynched there, and plenty of women abused by angry white men as they take out their rage on them. Trump the bully has drawn our nation’s bullies to himself.
As Newsweek noted in “RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS ARE A BIGGER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN ISIS”:
… untold thousands … are the extremists who hide among us, the right-wing militants who, since 2002, have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have. In that time, according to New America, a Washington think tank, Islamists launched nine attacks that murdered 45, while the right-wing extremists struck 18 times, leaving 48 dead. These Americans thrive on hate and conspiracy theories, many fed to them by politicians and commentators who blithely blather about government concentration camps and impending martial law and plans to seize guns and other dystopian gibberish, apparently unaware there are people listening who don’t know it’s all lies. These extremists turn to violence—against minorities, non-Christians, abortion providers, government officials—in what they believe is a fight to save America. And that potential for violence is escalating every day.
On the domestic front when Trump loses, more children, women and others will be hit, and worse by the hooked-on-authority white men lashing out. And pray you aren’t a Hispanic, Muslim or woman in a car with a Hillary sticker on it if your car breaks down in rural Indiana, or some Southern small town in Tennessee this winter.
I’ll bet that the number of blacks shot by white cops goes up after Trump loses.
It’ll be get even time for the types who join Oath Keepers. The organization is associated with the anti-government patriot movement. As noted in Wikipedia, the group encourages members—some of whom are current and former U.S. military and law enforcement officers—not to obey orders which they believe would violate the United States Constitution. The group is best known for its presence in Ferguson, Missouri during protests and unrest in the city, during which its members were armed with semi-automatic rifles .
After Obama was elected the Secret Service noted a dramatic spike in the usual “normal” threat level as against white presidents. Hillary is being turned into a monster, a terrible woman who steals elections from the rightful owners of America: white men. The Secret Service is going to have their hands full– once again.
They are the true heart of the Republican Party and have been for some time now. And just as Trump’s rise has torn the mask off the GOP, so too will his loss tear the mask off the white angry males who have pretended that they love our country.
They will be calling for open rebellion. If cops or the military intervene in whatever showdowns these types spawn, expect some of Trumps’ followers to become cop killers. They have the weapons and thanks to the NRA the cop-killing armor-piercing bullets, 100-round magazines and all the rest.
Post Trump’s loss we will see violence.
No, the sky isn’t falling. It won’t be a revolution, just a nasty piecemeal lashing out.
The losers will think or pretend to think, that they need even more guns to protect themselves against Hilary, the feds, the cops, the military, the environmentalists, the Muslims, Mexicans, blacks, power-grabbing “shrill” women, and everyone else, in fact against anyone sane who believes in American democracy and plays by the rules.
Trump’s final legacy will therefore be nothing more than having successfully stirred up yet another American know-nothing lynch mob.
To Trump the disorder and nastiness his graceless and accusatory loss will generate as he claims “we were robbed!” will be a vindication of sorts of his dark egocentric “I alone can save you” vision. It will in fact be Trump’s, version of Hitler’s bunker mentality as the war ended and Hitler launched a scorched earth policy. He decided that if the war was lost, then Germany didn’t deserve to outlive him having failed to live up to his greatness. As Jamelle Bouie writes in Slate (“Would Donald Trump Really Consider Dropping Out?”):
Trump is enough of an egomaniac that he wants to minimize the sting of defeat. It’s why he has questioned the schedule of the debates—in a failed attempt to alter them to his favor—and it’s why he continues to warn his supporters of a “rigged” election. But the same narcissism that leads him to run roughshod over political norms is what will keep him from dropping out of the race. It’s one thing to lose an election. It’s something else to be the biggest loser who ever graced American politics.
There is only one solution to Trump’s vicious backlash: the 2016 defeat of Trump and the entire GOP must be crushing!
It can’t be a close game (to overuse the the NFL analogy). It has to be a blowout. The GOP leadership’s loss must be as big as Trump’s. (And boy do they deserve it given how they have endorsed Trump.)
Trump’s loss must be so huge that all but the most deluded will know in their gut that claims the election was “stolen” are ridiculous, as ridiculous as Trump himself will soon appear in American history books.
If the GOP is crushed; if Trump loses by double digits; if it’s not close– then there’s a good chance that the worst of the post-Trump delusional violent reaction will be avoided.
So don’t vote for third party candidates. Stand up and crush a genuine monster who has become an existential threat to all of us. Let’s send a message to that white underbelly of the putrid side of America: America is still America, and as great as ever!
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Well said. The choice must be overwhelming.
Just like we know the elections in Syria and Iraq were fair and free because Saddam and Assad got over 90% of the vote.
If the OP wants to stop other conspiracy theories by floating his own, the only way to prevent the mythical violence he’s trying to get us to fear is if the election was close enough to look fair yet far enough to look fair. Now how do you expect to engineer a 54 – 46 Clinton win?
There has been a lot of discussion about politics on this website recently, and denouncements of Donald Trump as morally reprehensible, which I applaud. However, the viewpoints of the authors seem to imply that Hilary Clinton is our only viable choice as POTUS in 2016. I would like to see some discussion/analysis regarding Gary Johnson and the libertarian message amongst the writers here at Good Men Project. Maybe I have just missed the articles? I imagine I am not the only one of your readers who feel this way, and I think it would contribute to a much more well-rounded… Read more »
This election there are 34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats to be decided. Let’s send the Republicans home as a message for their support of Trump.
The amount of fear-mongering in this article is even worse than the Fear-mongering campaigns made by the Remain voters of the UK Party. Trump Supporters the nasty bunch? Yeahhhhhh…. the reason why Conservatives and republicans are getting so many votes, and why Trump has the most vote that any republican candidate has ever gotten is because of articles like this, because of people like you. The fear-mongering, the hate-band-wagoning, the exploitation of debunked stats and anecdotes, the bigotry, the smearing campaigns, corruption, lies, deception, media manipulation. All of this, all of the things you do – Trump and the rest… Read more »
All this whining from white men, complaining they are discriminated against, like the world is so stacked against you. I’m a white male, and I call BS. You just want more of the status quo, keep the power in the hands of the same people. It’s not like you ever had to live on the other side and face real discrimination. Were you the one that 60 years ago weren’t allowed to live in certain neighborhoods because developers restricted it? You were the one who couldn’t move to the nice suburbs and were forced to live in crowded urban centers?… Read more »
@ Jason
“I’m a white male, and I call BS.”
Spoken like a white, suburbanite who grew up in an upper middle class family to two college educated parents. Well my ancestors (I’m part Irish were about 100 years ago relegated to their Irish ghettos and denied jobs because they were Irish. Having few economic prospects may drive anyone to drink so the would load them up in Paddy wagons (Yeah that’s where the name originated. We got to lock up those Paddies a derogatory spin on Patric).
Well if you know discrimination, why would you wish it on anyone else? Also, I was the first in my family to go to college. One of my parents dropped out of school in 7th grade. The other has a GED. The point is, the way your ancestors were treated, was wrong, just like wanting to ban a someone with a certain religion from coming here is wrong. Trump represents the type who relegated your ancestors to Irish ghettos, only now it’s no longer the Irish being targeted.
This is one of the most hatred and fear promoting story from the DNC I have ever seen. This is well below human standards and compassion. Just think if this was a story about Black lives matters, or another left group. But then again they would not talk badly about themselves. Really how did this get past the publisher.
You didn’t do too bad a job of promoting fear and hatred yourself. Frankly, I consider the tone of this article beneath the publisher.
That “study”, as with other “studies” of the sort have all been debunked, but the insistence on targeting exclusively “white males” has allowed such misrepresentations to exist, as we see here in what I can only define as an extremely hateful commentary on white men. It is myths and accusations such as this that are driving men away from our party. It began back in 1994 when a feminist group FAIR produced the, Super Bowl Sunday Violence Against Women report that they based on an Old Dominion study that allegedly proved that domestic violence against women spiked on that day.… Read more »
@ DJ Roukan
Great response, but I think something needs to be clarified.
“We have to absolutely maintain that in the worst cases, where domestic violence escalates to fatality, women are over 3 times more likely to be the victims,”
Last time I checked, proxy violence wasn’t included in that statistic. So a woman gets her lover to kill her husband never got counted as a domestic violence fatality
Agree, John. Lesbian relationships can also skew the statistics as there is an inordinately high percentage of domestic violence incidents that do not include men. The Massachusetts survey on domestic violence showed that. 43.8 percent for lesbians, 61.1 percent for bisexual women National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center found that Sexual abuse by a woman partner has been reported by up to 50% of lesbians. Psychological abuse has been reported as occurring at least one in up to 90% of lesbians. Some numbers range from 27 to 90, which demonstrates how little we actually know or care about lesbian… Read more »
“If the GOP is crushed; if Trump loses by double digits; if it’s not close– then there’s a good chance that the worst of the post-Trump delusional violent reaction will be avoided. So don’t vote for third party candidates.” Don’t vote your conscience, be afraid. Fear mongering from the left. Same thing when Hillary says Trump is dangerous. He’ll press the button. OK, well isn’t that the whole point of a nuclear deterrent, to have a president who, if the situation warrants it, will press the button? Problem is Hillary Clinton’s machine did “rig” the democrats nominating process. The issue… Read more »
John, read Dinesh D’Souza’s Stealing America. It’s 1.99 for Kindle on Amazon. Sure clarifies where this whole progressive narrative of justified oppression against white males comes from. HRC and Obama are both acolytes of Saul Alinsky, a ‘community organizer’ (read shakedown artist) who hobnobbed with organized criminals like Al Capone. Hillary did her graduating thesis on Alinsky, only she’s done him one better and instead of agitating from outside, got inside the political machine. Progressivism is the systematic shakedown of the producing class and redistributing its wealth to the welfare class.
The point is to never have to press the button. I don’t want some one willing to do it. No one wins. All you do is justify to dictatorships like N. Korea who are afraid we will use it on them, that they are completely justified in their fears, and push everyone harder to get their own. That’s crazy talk, and should not be coming from a US President.
@ Jason
Then why does Clinton talk about the button at all? Why not just get rid of the nukes if you’re never going to use them. It’s silly to have them around because an accident could happen.
Maybe because that nut in North Korea offered to get rid of his in exchange for money and instead used the money to double his nuclear arsenal. I’d bet he has no qualms about killing you or millions of other people, but I’d also bet money that he has no interest in dying.
Trump said himself that he’d be the Last one to hit the button – and that he means it. I get a feeling he believes in nuclear deterrence, many have disputed its ability to function – especially if nuclear arms are in the hands of terrorists who can’t be reasoned with. A very different and scary reality in comparison to the Cold War, where the Russians didn’t want to be the ones to do it – America didn’t want to do it and it worked. However, if ISIS has a Nuke, and America has a nuke…..ISIS won’t have the moral… Read more »