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The US Constitution is the most robust in the world, but there is a way for Dump to kill the midterms.
- Create an enormous oil shock.
- Trigger energy riots.
- Deploy the National Guard.
- Go to Congress and ask it to push back the midterm election date for public safety, which it can do.
Rinse and repeat. There’ll be court challenges all over, but that’s Dump territory, where he flourishes. It’s not clear to me that the Supreme Court would not side with him.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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