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9 days agoThey’re emboldened. You’re assuming they care and people play by the rules. This is all about breaking political norms.
Let’s say, for example, Trump wrote an EO that said “State and Federal employees don’t have to marry gay people if it’s against their faith”. Remember Kim Davis? A person who did that unprompted by the POTUS. There’s plenty of asshats like her in important county positions around the country.
Given the success of recent Democratic elections, sometimes swinging districts by 20 points in previous Trump districts for the win…all it takes is some people in some key places to do some nefarious shit.
I feel like Vietnam veterans who were objectors could fall in this category. Plenty of them were forced to go. In the end, anyone who was drafted and didn’t want to be would have some level of understanding from me.