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A Mostly Peaceful Transition of Power
Many will be disappointed, but history tells us exactly what President Trump will do from here on out. And it doesn’t end in a bang.
Political fan fiction dies harder than Bruce Willis in a Christmas movie, it seems.
For four years, the RESIST! folks have longed for Trump to be driven from the White House, preferably in handcuffs, or — depending on the variety of daydreaming you are doing — forced out at gunpoint by the military. Since the election has gone sideways, the MAGA Militia folks have harbored (and by harbored we mean post all over their social media) fantasies of a red hatted Trump Army manning the barricades around the White House to protect their president from the deep state globalists who tried to cheat him out of his rightful place as God Emperor of the United States of Trump. A whole bunch of folks in the commentariat class are wringing their hands and writing their comments about how we aren’t going to get the traditional peaceful transition of power. Media seeing the coming end to the sugar high of having the outlandish Trump to cover 24/7 would have no objection getting a few more ratings squeezes out of the outgoing 45th president.
They will all be disappointed. History tells us exactly what President Trump will do from…
