Daily Beast: “Crack open your buckets of dehydrated cheese products, fire up the portable stove, and bask in the light of some emergency glow sticks. It’s a constitutional crisis, and you’ll want a well-appointed bunker. As President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election become more fantastical, some of his most diehard fans are urging each other to explore disaster preparation for unspecified political turmoil. Early on Monday, shortly before various states’ Electoral College votes began to formalize President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory, pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood took to Twitter to imply looming disaster. He urged followers to ‘make sure you have PLENTY of water, food, flashlights & batteries, candles, radio, [and] 2nd Amendment supplies.'”

“That call was echoed by a host of Newsmax, a far-right television network that has insisted Trump can still retain the presidency—at least until another anchor said the words ‘president-elect Joe Biden’ on Monday afternoon. Disaster preparation is, theoretically, apolitical. There’s nothing inherently partisan about keeping some canned beans and AA batteries on hand. But a certain crowd of apocalypse-minded conservatives has long had a love affair with doomsday prepping. And now that Trump supporters have taken up their dying cause with the fervor of an Armageddon fight, some are encouraging each other to stockpile for untold unrest ahead.”