No, Trump is not going to cancel the midterms

Sometimes you read something that makes you do a double-take. That’s what I did when I saw former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) intimate that President Trump would “cancel” the midterm elections in November.    

There is stupid and irresponsible, and then there is dangerous. Her ridiculous speculation is all three.

This latest example of the “Art of the Smear” was unleashed when radio host Shannon Joy recently posted on X: “Trump doesn’t seem to care about the midterms. Who wants to bet he’ll declare a ‘national emergency’ because of Iran (or some other manufactured crisis) and try to cancel the elections in November?” Greene, unfortunately, took the bait, replying: “Yeah, I could see it. INSANE.”

No — what is “insane” is that Greene would post such a potentially incendiary remark.   

Greene has had to deal with some truly vile death threats of her own in recent years, so surely she knows better. Irresponsible words and conjecture, most especially in the Age of Trump, can go sideways in an instant.  

As we have seen with the two assassination attempts against Trump himself, the ideologically driven killing of Charlie Kirk, and the sniper attack upon the ICE facility in Dallas that took two innocent lives, it is precisely this type of irresponsible rhetoric that can trigger an already damaged mind to cross an........

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