Attorney General Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Trump might have carte blanche on appointments in a second term.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images.)

We begin with two quotes, possibly related. The first comes from the New York Times’ “Trump whisperer,” Maggie Haberman.

The second, allegedly, comes from Trump himself.  As Asawin Suebsaeng writes in Rolling Stone:

As he lays the groundwork for a 2024 presidential run, Trump has talked to close associates about who he’d tap for top government positions should he win back the White House, and [Marjorie Taylor] Greene has repeatedly made his list, two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone.

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    Angie

    Nick: I love your pieces, agree or not, and your writing
    I am not a fan of some of your fans who have come here, because they are obviously of the opinion that all Dems/liberals ( I am only the second ) are evil people, whether they like Trump of not they are all in for a bashing and owning the libs, whether it is actually true ...this is disappointing and if it continues I may have tostop commenting, which I actually love to do

    I don't know what happened, but this is no longer the place I loved where I could to normal ,sane conservatives and even disagree without feeling like they would prefer I just go away...sigh

    I know you probably won't see this, but, I wanted to get it out there...

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  2. DRJ

    Perhaps the Democrats believe that having Trump as President isn't such a bad idea if it sets his behavior as acceptable for future Democratic Presidents.

    In addition, in the past, neither Party could win all future Presidential elections but electing Trump one more time might fragment the GOP for the foreseeable future and/or seriously damage the GOP's appeal with independent voters.

    IMO Trump is dangerous for America and the GOP. But, looking at it solely from the standpoint of the Democratic Party, he is a godsend to the Party's election chances (could Biden have won sgainst anyone else?) and its messaging.

    It would be better for America if the Democratic leaders took the actions suggested in the post. But as a Party focused solely on winning, why would the Democrats want to do anything to limit the damage Trump could do?

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    Theirnscott

    Nouriel Roubini just published a book, "MegaThreats". It discusses 10 threats the world will face in the next decade or two. I'm pretty sure every subscriber of The Dispatch would agree that while we are living lives that would be envied by the billions of people who came before us, the future will bring some significant challenges.

    Roubini was given the pejorative nickname Dr. Doom for his predictions of the real estate bubble and sub-prime inspired financial contagion of 2008. But he was right.

    The thought of Donald Trump being president with the challenges we face is well, unthinkable.

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  4. Daniel.Rabiner

    Democrats have a 1 vote majority in the Senate. Any legislation to reform these possible abuses requires 60 votes so I'm not sure why you're saying "As far as I’m aware, despite two years of total Democratic control, Congress has done jack squat to address any of this. Instead they’ve been consumed with reforming the Electoral Count Act, which is understandable."

    It isn't like they can magically get 10 Republicans to agree to reforms they support.

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    Paul Hoover

    Wow! I thought Mr. Catoggio was “just” a talented pundit. Turns out he also writes a pretty scary horror story as well!

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    Jeff Younger

    If Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024, the Republic may well be finished, regardless of who emerges victorious on election night.

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    Dave T

    I think I'd better go and have a glass of water and a lie down after reading that.

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      Jhc

      I think I'll have my water with fermentation products.

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    Marion Coatsworth-Hay

    We've fallen so far, so fast. We're at the point where there is a significant portion of the population that either believes a lie, or doesn't know what the truth is. Innocently, too! These people aren't sly, manipulative partisans like Bannon nor are they mere fools like Biden. They are either confused or so paranoid that they can only believe what "their" people tell them is the truth. Or they don't have the time to run down the truth or fiction of everything they're told. And I don't blame them. It is hard to tell what is true and what is false when leaders mislead us.

    I don't see us getting this back. A lot of people have to come to their senses, and it's unlikely to happen. A lot of people at the top have to start behaving differently, and that's not going to happen. Someday, I suspect there will be a catastrophe. Maybe it's a war, maybe it's a more deadly plague than the one we just went through. Maybe it's coordinated terrorist attacks on fifty cities killing a million people at once. Maybe it's a nuclear war.

    Man, I hope NONE of these things ever happen. I will begin to pray they don't happen. It would be such a shock, such a shared reality, 'though, that I think would be the only thing that would bring us together again. Have a nice day!

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    1. Jwpetite

      You're letting the everyday citizen off lightly. Isn't there some collective duty owed by the citizenry to exert the minimal effort necessary to sift through the noise and nonsense...propagated by both sides (much more egregiously by the MAGAverse, IMO).

      Acceptance and adoption of the stolen election mantra without the purveyors meeting even a prima facie level of proof is a failure to meet the minimal responsibility of owed the republic by its citizens.

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        Marion Coatsworth-Hay

        You're probably right. But up until cable news and internet news took over, along with social media, one could mostly believe what the news broadcasts told us. My parents weren't misled. My grandparents weren't misled by television or radio or newspapers. The news came along in the morning with the newspaper, and again just after suppertime with the tv broadcast. That was it! If you wondered what was happening during the day, you looked out the window or called a friend "to see if she heard anything".

        As a culture, I don't think we've adapted much at all to the way news is packaged and delivered. At least the older people still want to believe their historical trusted sources. And many of the younger people know nothing different.

        Remember that situation in which a 10 year old child was raped in one state and her family took her to another state for an abortion, while the original state's AG threatened legal action against the doctor who performed the out-of-state procedure? And then there was something about the rapist being an illegal alien. There was also that kerfuffle in which a Catholic school student grinned at a Native American protestor during a March for Life in Washington. Or the Kyle Rittenhouse situation.

        Good luck to someone who is trying to find a simple recitation of facts separate from opinion these days. Someone's crying "false flag", someone else is decrying someone calling "false flag" drawing attention to the assertion. I'm still looking for Antifa, myself, or the FBI agents implanted to inflame tensions on January 6 at the big riot.

        No wonder people select a convenient truth.

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        1. Jwpetite

          Agreeing with every syllable, is it time to deem this experiment with democracy a failure and move on?

          As the owner/editor of a local media outlet (in south Louisiana) I rarely delve into national politics/governance because it is fool's errand trying to inject simple, and VERIFIABLE facts into any discourse. Rare is the individual willing to give the other side a listen. With an inexplicable certitude that the wildest conspiracy is Gospel, there is no moving the needle toward rational (much less critical) analyses.

          Blind faith in fantastical narratives purveyed in the once dark corners of the internet signals the beginning of the end. Here's hoping I'm wrong.

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            Marion Coatsworth-Hay

            Good dialogue, thank you.

            Speaking for myself, I can tell you what the beginning of my end looks like. It's not dissimilar to the approaches of my family members and good friends. I've become exhausted and I don't want to spend the limited time God's given me trying to ferret out a truth upon which I will decide nothing, affect nothing. For example, I'm not a PA voter. I've burned a few brain cells thinking about Fetterman v. Oz, Fetterman's fitness, etc. Not for the purpose of weighing candidacies, but thinking about what motivates people to attack and defend. And to what end? None! I've gradually concluded I'd be better off thinking of nothing at all. It's tempting to become a spectator looking for the worst, and that's not much of a way to feed a soul. I don't want to gawk at car crashes.

            So, my "end" is distance and an appropriate degree of apathy. Toward that, my own media consumption is probably 10% of what it was ten years ago, five years ago, even two years ago. I sure hope that for America, our end isn't to espouse the fantastical narratives, lies, and untruths that swirl around! But it could be, and I do hope we're both wrong about that.

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    Phil Pennington

    I'm thinking that Trump is eyeing Xi's securing a third term to see what might work for himself....

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  10. Tracyhillwig

    As frightening as this is, I think there's only one real mis-statement here: "If that’s how Trump behaved when he knew he would have to face voters again, imagine the impunity with which he’ll act in a second term knowing that he won’t."
    If Trump is elected again, especially if he fills major posts with cronies, I can't imagine a situation in which he doesn't try to also circumvent the 22nd Amendment. He'll either try to run again or follow the example of one of his man-crushes, pull a Xi Jinping, and just name himself president again.

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