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   would contest the results because party operatives knew beforehand that   
   election irregularities resulting from new voting procedures, like mass   
   mail-in voting, designed to facilitate fraud would be glaringly obvious.   
   Thus, because of Brooks’s past performance and her central role in a   
   network comprising the media and current and former defense officials, her   
   work is widely acknowledged as the Left’s roadmap for post-election   
   contingency planning.   
      
   For the 2024 election, Brooks teamed up with journalist Barton Gellman to   
   run a series of wargames in May and June under the auspices of the   
   Democracy Futures Project (DFP), part of the Brennan Center for Justice at   
   New York University.   
      
   As with the 2020 wargames, the two opposing teams were staffed by former   
   government officials from the Republican as well as the Democrat   
   establishment. The results were announced with a mid-summer media rollout   
   to ready other officials and operatives for likely post-election   
   operations. Four articles were published the same day, July 30 — in the New   
   Republic; the Guardian; the Washington Post, which ran a piece by Gellman;   
   and Brooks herself writing for the Bulwark — showing that Brooks and   
   Gellman’s scenarios, at least those disclosed, assume a Trump victory. The   
   play then is to block.   
      
   Disruption, destabilization, and violence are legitimized by a narrative   
   driven by self-congratulatory mirror-imaging and projection in which the   
   so-called defenders of democracy face down an authoritarian Trump.   
      
   Brooks and her cohort ignore the evidence of Biden and Harris’s abuse of   
   power and assert that it is Trump who will who use the federal government   
   against his opponents. It is Trump’s CIA and DOJ, according to the   
   wargamers, that will cashier national security officials for “raising   
   concerns about the politicization of intelligence and the pressure to   
   launch ideologically motivated investigations.” It is Trump who will use   
   the IRS to go after nonprofits. It is at Trump’s behest that journalists   
   will be targeted and Democrat-aligned media outlets investigated as the FCC   
   revokes broadcast licenses. And, writes Brooks, the Trump administration   
   will force out top military officials on account of their “objecting to   
   Trump’s cozy relationship with Russia.”   
      
   The forecasts read like paranoid fantasy, but they’re carefully scripted   
   inversions of reality meant to to rewrite history and obscure the crimes of   
   the Left that have shaken the pillars of the republic.   
      
   The most alarming scenario involves political and military officials   
   “resisting efforts to federalize their national guard units and send them   
   to quell anti-Trump protests in major U.S. cities.” That is, the post-   
   election playbook calls for (or takes for granted) widespread violence so   
   intense that the president invokes the Insurrection Act. The forecast   
   posits a split in the senior ranks of the U.S. military after Trump   
   replaces the chiefs of staff with officers who comply with his order and   
   deploy forces to put down the riots.   
      
   This is where the political violence cultivated by the destructive Left is   
   leading: blood-soaked streets and a divided military. The purpose of the   
   Hitler narrative is to force members of the military to turn against Trump.   
   After all, loyalty to the constitution means fighting Hitler, not obeying   
   his orders.   
      
   With the two recent attempts on Trump’s life, we’ve seen how the regime’s   
   narratives simultaneously create the conditions for violence and explain it   
   away. When Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, PA, Democratic Party   
   officials and the media not only denied any connection between the shooting   
   and their inflammatory rhetoric but even blamed Trump himself. After all,   
   he and his aspiring assassin were cut from the same cloth: “The gunman and   
   Trump, at their opposite ends of a bullet’s trajectory, are nonetheless   
   joined together as common enemies of law and democracy,” wrote David Frum   
   in, of all places, the Atlantic.   
      
   On this view, Trump has polarized the country so profoundly that he is   
   ultimately responsible for the attempt on his own life. But that is another   
   inversion of reality, tailored to suit the bloodlust of a dark regime. It   
   is the logic of terror: It is only the violence of our victims that drove   
   us to slaughter them.   
      
   This self-serving logic not only gets the Left off the hook for past   
   depredations; it serves as the pretext for future violence against Trump,   
   his aides, and his supporters. After November 5, this weaponized narrative   
   could be expanded to justify violence on a mass scale designed to break the   
   republic.   
      
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