Will He Go?, Lawrence Douglas
Will He Go?, Lawrence Douglas
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Will He Go?
Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020

Author: Lawrence Douglas

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Unabridged: 3 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

In advance of the 2020 election, legal scholar Lawrence Douglas prepares readers for a less-than-peaceful transition of power.

It doesn't require a strong imagination to get a sense of the mayhem Trump will unleash if he loses a closely contested election. It is no less disturbing to imagine Trump still insisting that he is the rightful leader of the nation. With millions of diehard supporters firmly believing that their revered president has been toppled by malignant forces of the Deep State, Trump could remain a force of constitutional chaos for years to come. WILL TRUMP GO? addresses such questions as:
How might Trump engineer his refusal to acknowledge electoral defeat? What legal and extra-legal paths could he pursue in mobilizing a challenge to the electoral outcome?

What legal, political, institutional, and popular mechanisms can be used to stop him?

What would be the fallout of a failure to remove him from office? What would be the fallout of a successful effort to unseat him?
Can our democracy snap back from Trump?
Trump himself has essentially told the nation he will never accept electoral defeat. A book that prepares us for Trump's refusal to concede, then, is hardly speculative; it is a necessary precaution against a coming crisis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donald on November 11, 2020

A good explanation and analysis of United States presidential election law. This book has timely and important historical renditions of which I fear many Americans are not even aware. While this book trades on the drama created by President Trump, its topics are much more important for the long term......more

Goodreads review by Tucker on October 02, 2020

Published in May 2020. Still quite relevant as we head into October. Lots of useful information. Beautiful prose. I just wrote a 7-article series on Medium — here's the first article in the series — and I drew from information in this book.......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on June 05, 2020

Lawrence Douglas details the possible outcomes of what may happen in the 2020 presidential election with an incumbent who will, more likely than not, refuse loss at any level. Douglas details how the U.S. Constitution does not have a remedy for a president who refuses to give up the White House afte......more

Goodreads review by Ray on December 08, 2020

Lawrence Douglas' prescient book, "Will He Go?" was written several months before the 2020 presidential election. At the time of writing, President Trump was the obvious Republican Party nominee, and the front runner for the Democratic Party nomination was Joe Biden. So writing a book about the Nove......more

Goodreads review by Eric on June 05, 2020

Lawrence Douglas teaches law at Amherst College. If what he says in this short book is right, America is in for a very rocky ride in the next few months. His basic argument is that the peaceful transition of power in the US that happens when one President is elected to replace another is not guarant......more