"If Trump wins, there may be some policy improvements and I've been so frustrated with Biden in so many ways, but I still have to say that the core constitutional question is primary."

"The one thing we have learned is that Trump is not changing. He's still crazy. He is mentally unwell. [Biden's early stage dementia] is not quite the same thing as being literally a crazy sociopath."

"What Trump does is enrage the left. Trump legitimizes the notion that opposition to DEI is actually just white racism or sexism when it really isn't. It's an about an opportunity society as opposed to a racially divided society. And so he has empowered the far left in ways that other people have not. And I fear that would happen again. And we don't know quite where that polarization could lead and Trump could do some truly stupid stuff that could tear the country apart."

Freddie Sayers: With all the things you'd prefer with a Trump administration, what's not to like about Trump?

Andrew Sullivan: The end of the rule of law. The end of the American Constitution, which are far, far, far, far more important.

"Trump has already said that he's prepared to invoke the insurrection act if such violence takes place (as a result of the 2024 election). That's a slightly alarming prospect."

"Trump has told us, in advance, he won't recognize the results of the coming election. If he loses, we're headed for a constitutional crisis and if he doesn't win outright, clearly."

"Trump has never accepted the result of an election he didn't like whether it was his own or anybody else's. You can go through the record. He just doesn't believe that he needs to play by the rules. He believes that if he loses, it's because its rigged.

When a president stands up and says the entire system is rigged, you shouldn't trust it, you should only trust me... are you really saying its a responsible thing to support that person? Especially when he's already shown that he is indifferent to a paceful transfer of power."

"The other fear is that' he's learned his lesson that in fact that he now has lots of professionals behind him attempting to craft the arguments that will allow him to behave and act outside the law and outside the constitution. He's said he's going to go through the entire federal beuraocracy to purge everyone who just might disagree with him. There is a worry that all the things he learned in his first term, about how to get out of difficulties as president will be cemented in the second term and we will have a truly lawless individual in the White House."

"There are all sorts of policies I disagree with Biden intensely on. But Biden has not said, the president can rule alone. Biden has not said I believe in war crimes. Biden has not said that if I lose an election I will never concede it. The current president has not attempted to stop the peaceful transfer of power. These are acts so outside the norms of constitutional behavior that I think they represent an extreme danger to the basic procedures, norms and laws of a self governing Republic which is why I find it still unconcionable that one should vote for him."

"In 2024, the very fact that Trump is now a symbol of lawlessness, voting for him is essentially a vote to abolish the rule of law in your chief executive, which is in fact, the abolition of the United States. It was the entire point of the founding of the United States.

We now have somoene who's claiming that he is the sole executive, that he should be placed with total immunity above the law in the United States and he's asking people to vote for him on that basis. How is that not an assault on the heart of the Republic?"

"The entire constitution of the United States is based upon the rule of law. The rule of law has to be applied, or seem to be applied as much as possible, equally. Trump has openly stated that the president should be above and outside the law.

If he is convicted of crimes, some of which are quite serious in respect to his political positon, he doesn't care. He will seek to be re-elected to overturn the rule of law, with respect to himself. And that's what we can see coming.

In other words, we will have an election in which [Trump] will say, it's me or the rule of law."

"The critique you're now making is basically that he's fundamentally unserious and craven in his own self-defense to the point where no rules are worth obeying if he can cheat himself out of his sticky situation." - Fredd Baurer