Today in Trump's America

This headline should stop you cold:

Poll: More than half of Republicans would support postponing 2020 election

The details:

A poll found that 52% of people who identify as or lean Republican said they would support postponing the 2020 election to ensure that only eligible citizens could vote if it was proposed by President Trump.

The survey, conducted by two academics and published in the Washington Post on Thursday, interviewed a sample of 1,325 Americans from June 5-20 and focused on the 650 people who said they were or leaned toward the GOP.

The poll also found that 56% said they would support such action — which would be taken to stop alleged voter fraud — if it was supported by both Trump and Republican members of Congress.

Ah, yes, "voter fraud." Like the three to five million fraudulent votes for Clinton in 2016. It's more properly termed "election fraud," and guess who's committing it:

Add in the highly questionable gubernatorial results in Georgia, and attempts by Republican legislatures to hamstring incoming Democratic governors and other officials in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (states, by the way, that went for Trump in 2016), and we begin to see a pattern.

But back to the American Fascist Party, a/k/a Republicans:

Still, it's important to note that no Republican politician, including the president, has actually suggested this. The academics behind the poll, Ariel Malka of Yeshiva University and Yphtach Lelkes of the University of Pennsylvania, said:

Our survey is only measuring reactions to a hypothetical situation. Were Trump to seriously propose postponing the election, there would be a torrent of opposition, which would likely include prominent Republicans. Financial markets would presumably react negatively to the potential for political instability. And this is to say nothing of the various legal and constitutional complications that would immediately become clear. Citizens would almost certainly form their opinions amid such tumult, which does not at all resemble the context in which our survey was conducted.

However, the results shouldn't be simply dismissed, the academics said, because they indicated that there was a high number of Republicans who were willing to buck democratic norms.

"Buck democratic norms"? No, it's called destroying democracy. What's the first thing you do when you want to install an authoritarian regime? You "postpone" elections.

The fact that 52% of Republicans would consider postponing an election for any other reason than actual war on American soil is simply unacceptable.

Thanks to commenter pch1013 at Joe.My.God., at a post that's actually about how delighted the Russians are that Mattis is gone, Key quote:

State TV host Olga Skabeeva surmised that Americans are “losers, since Putin has defeated them in every way.” With a theatrical sigh, her co-host, Evgeny Popov, added: “Trump is ours again — what are you going to do?”