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What if Trump’s campaign is cover for a slow-motion coup? | Jan-Werner Müller

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Historians will have to explain why a candidate who earlier this year veer off into unrestrained racist rhetoric and dancing for 40 minutes to his own playlist must be taken seriously.

Trump 's followers have long been primed to assume that evil Democrats will steal the election.

The unchecked racism fits into a logic of far-right populism more generally, writes Andrew Hammond .

What is officially known as the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 makes it harder to challenge results in Congress ; the theory that legislatures could overturn the outcome popular among Trumpists in 2020 has not found much legal support. But since Trump has everything to lose (including his freedom, given the charges still pending), there’s every reason to think that he’ll try everything. - Jan- Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University and a Guardian US columnist.