"This latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate," Steven Calabresi writes.
On Thursday, July 30, 2020, it was announced that the U.S. gross domestic product dropped at an annual rate of nearly 33%. Purely by coincidence, Trump chose that very day to tweet about supposed massive election fraud and to suggest postponing the election.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
Trump’s tweet was, of course, completely false and debunked pretty much immediately, and did not result in an election delay. It did, however, have one interesting side-effect.
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies freely describes itself as “a group of conservatives and libertarians.” Its cofounder, Steven Calabresi, has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980. He’s not a Never-Trump Republican: he opposed both the Mueller investigation and Trump’s impeachment. But Trump’s tweet was a tweet too far even for him: “I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election.”
“Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats’ assertion that President Trump is a fascist. But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate.”