Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
With just a few days remaining before Election Day 2016, The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker wrote a notorious column. “Calm down,” the headline read. “We’ll be fine no matter who wins.” Parker’s argument at the time was that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offered competing visions, but Americans who were concerned about the nation’s future had no reason to feel too much anxiety about the outcome of the competitive race.
But I’m also curious what more Trump would have to do in order to cause Golden to feel some anxiety. For all intents and purposes, the presumptive Republican nominee isn’t just running against President Joe Biden, Trump is also running against democracy itself. We’re talking about a radical, twice-impeached felon who has repeatedly raised the prospect of creating a temporary American “dictatorship,” and who has talked about “terminating” parts of the U.S.
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