So Alice is basically taking her strategy from that of ex Pres Don Trump. Interesting.
Yes, Trump’s actual plan was to just…stay in the White House and refuse to come out.
This is just hilarious reading. Hilarious but scary.
"
“I’m just not going to leave,” Trump told one aide, according to Haberman.
“We’re never leaving,” the then president told another person. “How can you leave when you won an election?”
("How can you leave when you are married?" thinks Alice)
If you’re wondering whether there’s some kind of precedent for a POTUS losing an election and then crossing his arms and telling people, “I’m not going,” Haberman informs us in her book,
Confidence Man, that there is not. The closest historical parallel, she reports, would probably be when Mary Todd Lincoln refused to leave the White House for almost a month after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. (Incidentally, Todd Lincoln was subsequently
declared insane and
committed to a mental institution.) "