I’m not scared of what might happen if Donald Trump loses.
We woke up Thursday morning to a new climate 
of fear among political observers and junkies after the Republican presidential candidate hinted during the last debate Wednesday that, should he lose, he may not accept the election results.
For days now, and less than a month before the election, Trump has claimed that the election has been rigged against him by the media, the Department of Justice, the FBI and a group of “global special interests.”
On Monday, he tweeted “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!” On Wednesday, he said there are “millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldn’t be registered to vote” a
nd wouldn’t commit to accept whatever happens.
“I will look at it at the time,” Trump told moderator Chris Wallace and the projected 70 million or so American people watching. “I will keep you in suspense.”
This wait-and-see response seems to have caused a rippling shudder across the media and social media platforms as the Twitterverse bristles with murmurs about a possible civil war. After all, the last time someone didn’t accept election results was in 1860, when a Republican named Abraham Lincoln won the election — and we all know what happened after that.
But c’mon! Civil war? In 2016? Maybe I’d be a little more frightened if a sitting president were to say that he was not going to accept the results. A sitting president can command the military. But what power does Trump have? What on Earth can he do except whine and pout? He is just doing what The Donald always does — ranting like a lunatic because he can’t accept reality. What a cry baby. Look how much he complained about a silly little skit on Saturday Night Live.
Maybe he just wants to secure his TV time after the election. 
He’s addicted to it. In fact, the thing that scares me most about his not accepting the results is that it could mean six more months of 24/7 Trump TV.
Ladra has relatives, friends and acquaintances, however, who are truly scared of possible riots and uprisings. They think the “basket of deplorables” — which is admittedly one of the worst things a politician has ever said about a wide group of voters, clueless and disenfranchised as they may be — will drop their chicken wings, grab their rifles and AK47s, leave their trailers, hop in their pick-up trucks, raise the confederate flag and go all postal on the electorate. Especially the bad hombres of the electorate. You’re probably at greater risk if you are black, Hispanic, gay, a journalist, use solar energy, wear Jesus-like sandals or are otherwise suspected of being even the teensiest bit liberal.
If you think about the last year of the Trump campaign as a precursor to incite racial and xenophobic violence, it almost seems like some kind of conflict is inevitable when Trump loses. Hopefully it will be contained to isolated incidents by crazy White trash militia people who are immediately arrested. Maybe Trump can be arrested, too. If his intent to destabilize the post-election environment ends in violence and domestic terrorism.
But you know what? I’m more scared of what could happen if Donald Trump actually wins. Those are the truly frightening results.The
He could also appoint Supreme Court justices that will set us back decades as far as equality and 
women’s rights. Women could die from alley abortions. Married gays may have to get divorced. Mosques could be outlawed. People could be arrested for having Muslim friends.
Global warming will happen faster without the Environmental Protection Agency that he would eliminate and civil rights may be violated at schools because there will be no Department of Education to keep tabs on that stuff. The poor will stay poor.
The first amendment could be a thing of the past as President Trump limits media access to him, the White House or any federal agency to only those reporters who are “nice” by his standards. Our information from the government could be reduced to meaningless catch phrases repeated over and over again.
Rudy Giuliani could be our director of Homeland Security. Chris Christie could become Attorney General. We could have a group of thugs with tri-state accents running our federal government.
And, most frightening of all, maybe Trump could have SNL cancelled and Alec Baldwin jailed.
Bring on the civil war then. It will make for good skits.
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