GLOBE IDEAS
An Amherst professor has been gaming out how it could all go wrong — and what will come after
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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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