that is, they have faith in the system and want to see it upheld and preserved. this would make more sense coming from accelerationists
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it doesn't really matter what the actual result is (though afaict evidence is highly in favor of trump victory)
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if clinton seriously contested the election results it'd be the greatest legitimacy crisis, and possibly destabilizing event, since civwar
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I guarantee you if you prefer the continuance of the united states as it exists you do not want this (if otherwise ymmv)
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heh, I think anyone who expects to get that is fooling herself at this point - it's just a question of how and when
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the united states has proven itself to be pretty malleable in the past. a lot can change w/o losing continuity
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though tbh the number of diehard trump supporters is pretty small. most trump voters just voted R out of habit
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if there was a recount or (more likely) enough electors flipped ~1M people would lose it but that's manageable
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it'd be LA Riot level social disintegration not French Revolution level
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right. Even then, the problem would be the Cold War 2.0 --> WW3, which we avoided (maybe) w/ Trump
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my priors are down slightly on him being a stooge as clinton was, big q is what he does on immigration
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bigger q is whether he succeeds in creating a Putin-style feudal system w/ "stimulus" + privatization
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the immigration stuff I don't think he'll do anything that requires actual implementation work
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