can do whatever the hell he wants. Well, I guess a willing Republican majority in the Senate is also required, but it's become abundantly clear nobody with an R in front of their name, apart from maybe Mitt, is willing to go against Trump in the least. Sure, maybe Susan Collins might be "troubled" or maybe even "concerned" and Murkowski might clutch her pearls, but in the end they do as they're told. No, I believe there is zero chance of Trump ever leaving office peacefully.

no matter what he has to do to stay there. I think in his deluded mind he considers himself a full blown dictator. So, as we get closer to the elections, if he believes he is losing based on polling, it would not shock me that he could try to cook up a fake national emergency and use it as justification to delay elections for as long as he possibly could. As incredible as that sounds, Barr and the Rs have pretty much set the table for Trump to try doing that. And, worse, he may get away with it, for a while, while we wait for the court challenges and appeals.

He has threatened to arrest all of his political opponents so far including Hillary, Obama, and Biden. Who will be next?
The question is this? Will we sit quietly by when it starts?

I think this will happen. Then all hell will break loose.

thinking this for a while, unfortunately. Yes, all hell will break loose.

There has to be a shocking, pivotal moment, to really bring this monster down. A shock that NO one can ignore or gloss over.

Like literally shooting someone on 5th Ave.

The election year of 1968 was shocking, with its back-to-back political murders of Bobby Kennedy and Reverend King and the horrors of the Chicago convention.
That was the year I woke up politically.

Next question.

Yes, they are THAT indoctrinated. They want Fox Noise to be the ONLY media outlet allowed. Collins and Murkowski will voice their "concern," as usual, but they do not have the fortitude or the moral fiber to stand in the way of such an action. Barr would just invent some legal mumbo jumbo to justify it, and smirk as he goes along. After all, the president can't arrest anybody. The Justice Department can.

However, it is far from sure that all of the judiciary and the military would go along with it. Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Thomas would go along, but Roberts probably would not. Should the coup fail, he would not want his name in the history books as having gone along with a traitorous coup.

"Against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

Military historians will point out what happened to the military elite of the Soviet Union under Stalin. The more Stalin's power grew, the fewer of them found themselves alive. I think they will take their chances with a democrat (small d). The American military has never undertaken such a bold intervention into domestic politics before, but never have we had deranged dictator before, either.

Some of our more shadowy organizations might not go along, either. CIA, NSA, DIA, etc. will not be interested in being subjugated to the likes of Trump, and if such a coup occurs, their autonomy would be a thing of the past. It would be bloody and probably make the Civil War look tame in its savagery, but if anything of the sort were to occur, I bet it wold be over in a few days, with the Republican Party enjoying the status of the NSDAP in Germany in May 1945. Mop up operations of right wing militias in rural areas would take longer, but there would be no further inhibition against initiating them. The 300 pound beer belly guys with six hunting rifles in log cabins in Michigan and Wisconsin will not be putting up extended resistance against army ranger units armed with bazookas and tanks. Look for NATO countries, especially Canada and France (Britian, too, if BoJo is gone), to answer a call for help against an armed Republican coup attempt, assuming the whole thing were to take longer than 48 hours.

If Trump is behind in the polls, he will 100% have Barr arrest the Democratic candidate.

Even with Barr as AG?

There are enough things to hate about Trump without making up new ones out of thin air.

...of the origins of the Russia investigation? Also, Trump has clearly retaliated against conscientious employees who refuse to break the law.

Finally, the whole basis behind the Russia scandal.was to create a pretext for investigating Biden. Am I missing something?

They are in reactive mode and making it up as they go along. Very dangerous.