Beyond Putin's Wildest Dreams of Destroying NATO and the US Democracy Pretext to Call for Martial Law and Flush (Cancel or "Supervise") Elections Remember This???? Obama asked Republican leaders to stand with him and publicly denounce Russian interference in our elections. The Republican leaders refused. Why? Because Putin wanted Trump to win. Why? Because Trump is the path to the great US experiment's demise. And here we are. With massive efforts to gerrymander elections out of any practical value and even Supreme Court sanctioned immunity for Trump as well as the right of government enforcers to stop people on the basis of their skin color ("Kavanaugh Stops"), what has made the US a deviant, an abnormal, a special place is being pulled down into the historical norms of might makes right. During the George Floyd unrest, Trump decided to take a walk past rows of riot police and protesters in Lafayette Park (no irony there), to ...