Heather Cox Richardson 8/22/25 WARNINGS: TRUMP TROOPS IN BLUE AREAS WILL BE STATIONED TO INTERFERE IN ELECTIONS, TRUMP MAKING FOLLOWERS IRRELEVANT On August 18, Democracy Docket's Marc Elias warned that Trump is “stationing the military and other federal law enforcement in blue areas so—when the time comes—he can pivot their mission to suppressing voting rights and undermining free and fair elections.” On Tuesday, Trump ally Steve Bannon said on his webcast War Room: “They're petrified over at MSNBC and CNN that, hey, since we're taking control of the cities, there's going to be ICE officers near polling places. You damn right.” Last March, scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder wrote that those who fantasize about a strongman make the terrible mistake of thinking “that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't,” Snyder wrote. “In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something.” But he doesn't, Snyder explains: your support makes you irrelevant.

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Heather Cox Richardson 8/22/25
WARNINGS: TRUMP TROOPS IN BLUE AREAS WILL BE STATIONED TO INTERFERE IN ELECTIONS, TRUMP MAKING FOLLOWERS IRRELEVANT