'Chaotic mess': Analyst warns Trump has laid groundwork for anarchy if election is lost
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump isn't going to accept a loss in 2024 any more gracefully than he did in 2020, warned Heather Digby Parton in a Salon column Monday — although things won't play out exactly the same as they did when he was the incumbent president. And some state-level supporters of Trump have taken action to continue discrediting election losses, with the Maricopa County Republican Party even censuring the Arizona Supreme Court for not taking election challenge lawsuits more seriously. What he can do, however, is whip up local GOP activists to cause chaos on the ground — which will be benefited by the fact that unlike last time, "Virtually the entire Republican establishment has bought into the lie that the 2020 election was stolen and is clearly ready to back Trump's claims that it will have been stolen in 2024," from volunteer poll monitors. "Starting last December, Trump began employing a phrase used by his disgraced former National Security Adviser and QAnon adherent Michael Flynn: 'Guard the vote.'
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