# Will Trump leave office peacefully and normally if he loses the election?

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**Created:** [March 8, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-leave-office-peacefully-and-normally-if-he-loses-the-election/849110 "2020-03-08T17:04:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-leave-office-peacefully-and-normally-if-he-loses-the-election/849110/108 "2020-03-16T02:19:20Z")

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> [@Leaper](#):
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> What I don’t get is why Congressional Republicans would WANT some kind of Trump dictatorship.

As to that, everybody should read or watch Isabel Allende’s _House of the Spirits_. The right-wing senator supports the fascist coup, thinking it will benefit the conservative side. Damn, was he ever wrong! The fascists have no respect for anybody, and they destroy the liberals and conservatives alike. They destroy his own family and he comes to understand too late what that bargain with the Devil meant.

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