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An Amherst professor has been gaming out how it could all go wrong — and what will come after
An uneasy hush fell over the White House when President Trump flew to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for his coronavirus infection. Now that he’s back — mask torn off on a White House balcony — he’s as pugilistic as ever.

He’s made the requisite broadsides against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but most worrisome of all: his attack on democracy. On Twitter, the president is again raising doubts about the legitimacy of mail-in balloting — resuming his efforts to undermine public confidence in the election.

Those efforts — plus his repeated refusals to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses to Joe Biden — awakened many to the possibility of a coming electoral crisis. But Lawrence Douglas, professor of law, jurisprudence, and social thought at Amherst College, has worried about the possibility for some time.

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