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It would be hugely damaging to the Republic, yes. But there are no ways to avoid that, now.

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And the rules are that you have to win a vote of Electors. So if you accept the EC as the rules, you accept that.

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In the "America under Fascism" scenario, this is precisely the sort of crisis an autocrat uses to seize absolute power...

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Just so. The fascist plays chicken with the dissolution of institutions, trusting the democrats to blink first.

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If the electoral college "went rogue", it would also vindicate all the crazies he's bringing into power. Undesirable.

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If all of Clinton's electors go to Romney and enough Trump electors do, too, we get a generation of Dolchstoßlegende

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If enough Trump electors jump ship to send it to the House, it's impossible to know what happens

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I concede that it is impossible to know what will happen, but I think *bad things* is a fairly reasonable guess.

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At this point all possible outcomes are bad

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Fighting Trump in ways that will be perceived as illegitimate by the avg. voter is courting civil war. I'd say *extra* bad.

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If so, Trump either takes power and you have a fascist state or he doesn't and you have civil war. Am I missing something?

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