# Presidential Election results - Who can enforce them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 30, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-election-results-who-can-enforce-them/924338 "2020-10-30T19:29:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-election-results-who-can-enforce-them/924338/30 "2020-11-01T13:54:53Z")
Quoting myself for context: > [@LSLGuy](#): > > It’s not that simple. Or at least it need not be that simple. > … Here is an excellent post in another thread that contains a cite that bears reading: > [@Could Trump happen in Canada?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-trump-happen-in-canada/918696/38): > > Very depressing article in Buzzfeed on the “Fragile State Index”, an attempt by poli-sci types to predict what societies are most in jeopardy for democratic failures. They put the blame primarily on significant economic inequality within a country. Other factors, such as heightened partisanship, aren’t the cause of political dysfunction, in their view, but rather are a symptom of that underlying economic inequality, as the fight between the haves and have-nots begins to show in the political a… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-election-results-who-can-enforce-them/924338)._