{"id":609,"date":"2020-11-02T10:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/?p=609"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:08:35","slug":"well-here-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/2020\/11\/02\/well-here-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, here we go…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Deep breath, Americanos. Let’s brace ourselves for what may be the messiest, most litigious and disruptive Interregnum<\/a> in U.S. history. (“Interregnum” = the 79 day interval between Election Day and the swearing-in of the next president.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What could possibly go wrong — besides strategic disruptions of in-person voting, blocking and disputing of the vote count (especially of mail-in ballots, which strongly lean Democrat), a victory proclamation based on early results before the mail-in count can result in the anticipated “blue shift<\/a>,” proclamations of massive voter fraud (which the last few months of “mail-in voter fraud<\/a>” claims have been preparing<\/a> us for), emergency recount motions in multiple states (with postmarks becoming this year’s “hanging chads<\/a>“), caravans of Trump-supporting (and sometimes armed) “ballot guardians” and “coup protestors,” appeals to state and federal supreme courts (for a replay of Bush-v.-Gore, this time with a clear conservative majority), and a state of emergency, to be quelled by riot police and military units when fights erupt in the streets, all in an attempt to bypass election results and re-impose “law and order”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least if we are ready for these measures<\/a>, we won’t be too surprised. If we get through it all unscathed, it will be a little short of miraculous. (It can’t hurt to hope.) And no matter what happens<\/a>, it will be studied for years to come. (That is, unless the condition becomes terminal.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question for media studies geeks will be: what have the media learned since 2016? What should we be learning, going forward? Gauging the answers given so far, we\/they have either learned nothing<\/a>, a few things<\/a>, not enough<\/a>, or we’re not sure<\/a>. Perhaps we will find out<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deep breath, Americanos. Let’s brace ourselves for what may be the messiest, most litigious and disruptive Interregnum in U.S. history. (“Interregnum” = the 79 day interval between Election Day and the swearing-in of the next president.) What could possibly go … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[628653,628384,660283,660117],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-u-s-presidential-election","tag-disinformation","tag-interregnum","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}