It’s June, 2020. Far behind in the polls, desperate for a “win,” and fuming about his lack of success with regime change in Iran, Trump creates a pretext for war and orders air strikes without congressional approval. The nation erupts. On the left, demonstrations break out all over the country, and both the MSM and the internet are full of references to a wag-the-dog war. On the right, Fox News is calling war opponents traitors, and demanding legal action against them.
Trump calls in Barr and tells him he wants to use his wartime powers under the Constitution, as well as emergency powers under various statutes, to institute censorship of the MSM, to control antiwar content on the internet, and to arrest demonstrators and other “agitators.”
This is not an idle fantasy. You know as well as I do that it is a perfectly realistic scenario. What happens next? I don’t know. That’s what scares me.