But in case of a slender victory by his Democratic challenger or an uncertain result, chaos beckons. If Trump is thoroughly trounced in November 2020, he will be limited in his maneuvers, master in democratic negation though he may be. To believe that beating Trump at the polls provides not only the proper but also the most secure way of removing him from office is to miss the singular menace that this president represents to a basic principle of democratic governance: the peaceful succession of power. What if the election produced an unclear result, one that could be contested? Or what if Trump lost-but refused to acknowledge or accept his defeat? Their concern was not that Trump might win the election, or that he might steal it through disinformation, foreign interference, and voter suppression, real as those concerns are. Some observers, however, have expressed grave doubts about the coming election, including several of the experts gathered last summer in the D.C.
Trump survived the judgment of the Senate he will have no choice but to submit to the verdict of the voters. But if he is, he will leave the White House not as a martyr of Congress but as a rejected incumbent. Of course, there is no guarantee that Trump will be defeated at the polls. Republican lawmakers cannot accuse Democrats of trying to defeat the will of the people if the people vote Trump out of the White House. For those who questioned the tactical wisdom of impeaching the president, focusing on 2020 was always the better way to go.Ĭome Tuesday, November 3, at issue will not be whether Trump committed high crimes or misdemeanors but whether he has earned another term as the nation’s chief executive. Their sobering answer-prepare for a flood.įor tens of millions of Americans, the 2020 election promises to accomplish what the impeachment proceeding never stood a chance of doing-remove Donald Trump from office. A Katrina-like storm is gathering off our shores how strong is our system of levees? Are we equipped to knock it out of the sky? Others spoke in meteorological terms.
An asteroid is heading straight toward America.
To describe the threat facing our system, some of the experts borrowed metaphors from astrophysics. That, and a fear that our process for electing the president might be vulnerable to spectacular failure. What brought them together was a shared expertise in presidential electoral law. Befitting the center’s mission, the scholars represented Democrats and Republicans, progressives and conservatives. On the last day of August 2019, a group of prominent scholars gathered in a conference room in the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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