I’m more hoping that Democrat communities in swing states are prepared. All it takes is one or two attacks on a couple of minority districts in battleground states to dissuade enough people from voting to tip the scales in favor of Trump. And it doesn’t take a majority of Republicans to do that. All it takes is a few lone wolves to take matters into their own hands, and that’s what Trump is targeting. He doesn’t care if he’s scoring 50% at the polls or 5%. If those 5% have a bunch of lone wolf idiots willing to launch a couple of attacks, that could easily be enough, and I’m willing to bet that’s what Trump is banking on.
And they don’t even need to be “violent”. Just drive by a polling place with a couple of smoke bombs and some automatic rifle sound effects playing out of the car speakers and let the ensuing hysteria do the rest.
Everything I’ve seen from these traitor trash asshats suggests they’re bullies and cowards so I’m not sure I buy your lone wolf theory. They’re far more comfortable in a group where the opponent is outnumbered, that’s when they really show their colors.
There have been plenty of lone-wolf attacks over the past few years. They just typically don’t get as much attention because the damage they cause is typically minimal. The attack on Paul Pelosi is probably the most high-profile example. And we’ve seen plenty of lone-wolf attacks from people for other causes (abortion, most commonly). There’s no reason to believe that the MAGA movement is immune from people considering similar attacks.
I guess we’ll see. The examples you point to don’t seem numerous enough to potentially affect turnout though. Like I said, they’re cowards so they don’t attack large groups such as people waiting to vote.
I’m in california in a reddish town in a “blue” county. The saturday and sunday before election day, during early voting, one of those “convoys” drove by our polling places in lifted trucks with trump flags and fired off a few rounds. They made a loop around town all day to all the polling places, went by the one by my home seven or eight times. Law enforcement did jack shit, because one of the folk in the “convoy” lives three streets over and is one of those problem “always driving through the 25 and by the school at 60, rolling coal” neighbors. We’d have noticed if he was arrested. Trump still lost easily in our county. Probably because all us blue voters had already voted.
