So imagine this scenario. Election Day is approaching. The White House is fearmongering about

supposed election fraud, right? This is not hard to imagine. White House is fearmongering about

election fraud. But then they decide they're going to encourage vigilantes to take action

to stop the supposed fraud. So Trump supporters decide that they're going to do citizen patrols of polling places,

because the Trump White House has been messaging that they should do that.

And Trump supporters start showing up to do these patrols with guns.

So now we're getting reports of armed vigilantes at polling places,

and obviously protests against them and probably confrontation. So now we're getting reports of armed vigilantes at polling places and, obviously, protests

against them and probably confrontations with them. In response to those reports, Trump announces

that he must keep the peace. He must send armed federal agents to polling places to protect the

election. That's one scenario. What would we do in that scenario? Here's another

scenario. Some foreign countries, say Iran or Russia or China, whoever, some foreign country

decides to unleash a wave of AI-generated deep fake videos of candidates and other people in American politics.

And these are fake videos, but they're good. They're good quality, and people don't always recognize

that they are fake. These fakes are designed to hurt Democratic candidates and Trump critics.

They're designed to confuse voters and muddy the waters in terms of what's going

on in the election. When news organizations start reporting on the deepfakes, the Trump

administration goes ballistic and starts threatening all news organizations that report on the

deepfakes. They start telling news organizations that they have to censor any coverage of this

foreign influence operation as a matter of national security.

That's the second scenario. What would we do then? Here's a third scenario. Voting's over.

But before the states can certify the results of the vote, Trump's Justice Department sends FBI

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