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One thing we all have in common is that we would like to be able to look into the future. No one has such a power, but some are able to make some solid predictions based on interpretation of previous events.  One of America’s best interpreters of what has happened before is Historian Heather Cox Richardson.

It is Sunday. There is a monumental election next week. Many describe it as the most important in our country’s history. As the campaign has gone on, the issues seem to shake out to a few major issues. Among those perhaps the most important now is the simple survival of the country. MAGA and the extreme right make no pretense of planning to change our checks and balance system with an autocratic form of government with DonOLD Trump at the head. 

This idea is so foreign to what America has been, but nothing is guaranteed. Even the fact that such a change could even be possible high lights the fact that our democratic form of government only survives when everybody agrees on the rules. Trump has totally broken that norm.

Now that Trump has broken the norm, getting that agreement again may be very hard.

Tip of the hat to http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com

Give a listen and see what noted Historian Richardson sees coming in the days, weeks and months following this election.

In a similar vein, Rachel Bitecofer takes a very sobering look at what happened in 1933 when a man Trump has been heard to praise, took office in Germany. The comments and threats that Trump has been filling his rallies with are not comedy. They are serious. If he gets power, will there be anything that can stop him? What will the military do?

Even having Trump this close to power once more is lighting a match in the dynamite shack. And those who think it will not affect themselves better get ready for a big surprise.

“A republic, if you can keep it.”

–Benjamin Franklin’s response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”