"Set your mind back to November 4, 2024, one day before the presidential election. I know. That's hard. Imagine that you were about to vote for Donald Trump for president. I know. That's even harder. But if we can do time travel, then surely we can adopt the mindset of the 77 million people who chose to vote for Trump about 15 months ago. If, on November 4, you'd been able to see the future, would you have cast your ballot the same way?"
"If you had known that, upon taking office, Trump would immediately pardon 1,600 of the January 6 rioters, would that have made a difference to you? Suppose you had known that Trump would support the idea of setting up a " compensation fund " to reimburse the rioters who had lost income or paid fines because of their conduct? Suppose you had known that Trump was going to fire 17 inspectors general on his fifth day in office in his second term?"
"Suppose you knew that Russia's rate of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine would increase for the first year Trump was in office, rather than drop to zero because Trump had ended the war on his first day in office, as he promised? Suppose you knew that, after Trump had been in office for a year, the inflation rate would be essentially the same as it had been when Trump was campaigning on the promise of reducing the rate of inflation " very quickly "?"
The piece asks the reader to imagine November 4, 2024, adopting the mindset of the 77 million who voted for Donald Trump. It poses whether knowledge of future actions would change votes. Specific hypothetical actions include immediate pardons for 1,600 January 6 rioters, a proposed compensation fund for rioters, and firing 17 inspectors general early in a second term. The scenarios include thousands of masked federal agents using lethal force in cities, an increase in Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine during Trump’s first year, and inflation remaining essentially unchanged despite campaign promises.
Read at Above the Law
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