Lame duck.

That’s what we call a president who won’t be serving another term but is still in office for the two-and-a-half months between Election Day and Inauguration Day.

But a lame duck is a wounded animal.

And a wounded animal can be incredibly dangerous.

Donald Trump has been wounded. In his twisted mind, grievously so.

The weeks ahead may be as perilous as any in our nation’s entire history.

• Trump is already frantically undermining the very concept of democracy.

• He has cowed the General Services Administration from officially acknowledging the election results, subverting the transition process.

• He has set about replacing his own appointees within the Department of Defense — who he came to see as insufficiently sycophantic — with MAGA adherents who are even more alarmingly unqualified.

• As a growing majority of the country recognizes the truth of Biden’s victory, Trump is inciting an unhinged minority into believing that an ill-defined conspiracy stole the election.

• There is simply no telling how far Trump might go in his lashing out as he desperately tries to cling to power.

It is entirely possible that we may need to take to the streets in the days and weeks ahead — with little warning, and maybe more than once — to stop an outgoing president from sabotaging his successor and our country on his way out.

Add your name to show your support for mobilizations necessitated by Trump’s unprecedented and depraved actions.

Add your name even if you may not be able to participate yourself for one reason or another.

Thanks for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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Of course, we’re also busy undoing damage the Trump administration has already done and watching out for whatever shenanigans a lame-duck Donald Trump tries to get away with. And — like so many nonprofits and small businesses — we continue to experience financial strain related to the coronavirus pandemic.

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