Donald Trump will cheat, cheat aggressively, to win re-election in November. He will cheat because he does not respect the fundamental right of the people to choose their leader. He will cheat because he enjoys defeating his opponents by unashamedly playing dirty. He will cheat because he is afraid of what will happen to him if he loses power. He will cheat because his re-election will be difficult to achieve without it.
When I say cheat...I mean all of it! Yes, we will see the aggressive campaigns of disinformation and the targeted obstruction of minority voter registration and voting access we've seen before...but it will go much deeper this year. What rational person can even doubt that votes tabulated on our unreliable and unverifiable digital voting machines will be altered? Perhaps most insidious of all, I truly believe that many groups who would be strongly inclined to vote against Donald Trump will be targeted in a campaign of fear and intimidation (think of hundreds of 2nd amendment “rallies”conveniently located near key polling stations).
The only way for the Democrats to inoculate themselves from what is to come is to nominate a rock star candidate. Someone who has extremely broad appeal to voters with different ideological views. Someone who will inspire minority voters to push back against the threats and inconveniences they will face in 2020 to come out and vote in record numbers. Someone whose gravitas and popularity will throw Donald Trump off his game...make him feel vulnerable, insecure and bring out his nastier weaker instincts. Someone who can win a big enough share of the vote in swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, and Wisconsin that vote tampering could not be achieved without ultimately exposing itself.
There is only one eligible person in the USA who can run for President and overcome the nightmarish electoral situation we are facing: Michelle Obama. She is beloved, she inspires, she is competent and intelligent, and with her husband she helped build one of the most successful political machines in recent American history. Candidate Michelle Obama is our best chance to defeat Donald Trump and end the drastic and depressing changes he and his supporters are trying to bring about. No other potential Democratic comes even close to having the same probability of success as the former First Lady.
This is a long post, and for those of you still reading I appreciate your time and consideration of my arguments. In conclusion, I will admit that I am, on a daily basis, fraught with anxiety and sadness at the political reality we currently face. I have no idea what possible series of events could place Michelle Obama as the nominee for 2020. She is not currently running and has shown no interest in running (quite the opposite if fact). More significantly, we are engaged in a current nomination cycle that has already started and almost always leads to a candidate who locks up the nomination before the convention.
Of the current contenders, all of them will struggle against the very stacked odds facing them in the 2020 general election. Are we just going to sit back and let things get worse? Those of us who abhor Trump and his treason have sat on the sidelines waiting for someone to remove him: Comey, Mueller, the courts, the Republican Senate (what a laugh). In fairness, what else can we do???? Well here's one thing we can do...all of us rally with passion, with a cry for duty to country and human decency above all else and demand we get Candidate Michelle Obama in 2020!