Secession is on the Table | The Roundtable Ep. 32 Segment 2
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
With a meager sixty-seven days until the general election in November, Democrats have moved from talking about secession as a last-ditch effort in a war game, to floating it as a serious strategy. Fueled by pure rage and moral self-righteousness, identitarians in liberal clothing are making their final gambit to stage an all-out coup. Can the American republic survive another wicked blow?
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| 0:00.0 | Should I stay or should I go now? |
| 0:05.0 | Should I stay or should I stay or should I go now? |
| 0:09.0 | If I go there will be trouble and if I stay it will be doubled. |
| 0:18.0 | So come on let me know. Not too terribly long ago, we did a segment on this very podcast about a set of simulations run by the transition |
| 0:38.3 | integrity project whose name implies rightly that they are about electoral transition and they ran a set of sort of |
| 0:47.6 | imaginary circumstances in which the presidential election was gamed out in a bunch of different ways. |
| 0:54.6 | And we talked about the fact that most of these ways had to do with Trump not conceding, which |
| 1:01.9 | already made it kind of suspect, to me at least anything to others of us as well just |
| 1:06.8 | It was portrayed in the media and did itself kind of frame the whole issue as one of we have this unprecedented |
| 1:14.4 | evil-doer this fascist in the White House |
| 1:17.5 | what might happen horror of horrors is if the horrors were not in fact |
| 1:21.8 | liberally spread to be generous, liberally |
| 1:24.8 | spread all over our nation at the moment and we then published a piece by |
| 1:32.1 | Andrew Bush which I commend to all of our listeners sleepwalking into secession, |
| 1:37.8 | about, well, comparing these various kind of disaster scenarios of what if the election is |
| 1:46.3 | unresolvable with a number of historical events from our nation's history and Bush |
| 1:51.8 | pointed out that there was one scenario in which as he puts it |
| 1:57.1 | longtime Democratic pro and Clinton lieutenant John Pedesta playing the part of |
| 2:02.3 | Joe Biden refused to accept defeat when the simulation |
| 2:06.2 | projected a repeat of 2016. A Biden lead to the nationally aggregated popular vote |
| 2:10.1 | coupled with the Trump win in the electoral college. |
| 2:13.2 | His party would not allow him to concede, he said. |
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