If He Remains in Office Through 2028...

[berg80]

President Trump has dropped unsubtle hints about his desire to cancel the November elections. “We have to even run against these people,” he said in a speech last month. “I won’t say cancel the election; they should cancel the election.” Mr. Trump didn’t stop there. “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election,” he mused a week later.

These remarks have caused understandable concern, but they are empty threats. Mr. Trump’s power depends on the appearance of winning elections, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with convincing the world he won in 2020. And control over elections is dispersed among thousands of officials across the country, making cancellation impossible.

But more to the point, it’s election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move. The goal is to keep elections going but without unseating those in power.

Look around the world. Vladimir Putin hasn’t canceled an election. Iran has regular elections. In the 21st century, the name of the game is “competitive authoritarianism,” in which democratic institutions and elections persist, but are hollowed out by authoritarian incumbents. Elections — even if they’re rigged — give rulers legitimacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/trump-cancel-elections-voting.html

 

[Couchpotato]

... Will Trump be forced to bear the elective consequences of the first two years of his term?

Will he have his gold Congressional Carte Blanche revoked?

Will he be able to continue on his current retrograde trajectory?

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Will he see the light?
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KUMBAYA UP THE YING YANG!

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Will he be able to prevent a democratic election in November?

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Your auguries, please.​

I would be very surprised if the Republicans didn’t lose the midterms. Most Presidents do and Trump has done everything in his power it seems to make sure that happens. Saying he’s had Congressional “Carte Blanche” is a wild over statement though

 

[Mac1958]

History will show that R's continuously lost their collective shit questioning Joe Biden's capacity to be prez while routinely ignoring repeated, recorded instances of Don displaying a detachment from reality. Or what I call Reality Detachment Syndrome. RDS being an affliction suffered by the vast majority of those in trump's cult.

The clumsy "but Biden" deflection has always been funny because the two people couldn't be any more different in temperament or actions.

But the voices they trust have painted him as Satan incarnate, so they've gotta mindlessly follow along.

 

[Care4all]

If your D Party has any credibility and honor, they’d impeach and remove the warmongering Zionist pedo after the mid-terms.

Takes 2/3s of Senate to impeach and remove....he won't be removed.

 

[berg80]

Saying he’s had Congressional “Carte Blanche” is a wild over statement though

What makes you say so?

 

[berg80]

The clumsy "but Biden" deflection has always been funny because the two people couldn't be any more different in temperament or actions.

But the voices they trust have painted him as Satan incarnate, so they've gotta mindlessly follow along.

They needed a counter narrative to justify their support of trump. The most incompetent, corrupt, immoral prez in US history. So they fabricated a steaming pile of horseshit to avoid self reflection.

 

[gipper]

Takes 2/3s of Senate to impeach and remove....he won't be removed.

Too bad. It only means both gangs are corrupted and incompetent. Neither is looking out for the American people or abiding by the Constitution.

 

[gipper]

Actually that is true for democrats, the party of 18% approval, the party of no ideas or bad ideas, even democrats don't like democrats.

90% of Republicans approve the Trump agenda and accomplishments, see the difference?

**** both parties asshole. You uniparty dupes never learn.

 

[berg80]

Too bad. It only means both gangs are corrupted and incompetent. Neither is looking out for the American people or abiding by the Constitution.

Only one party elected a man, leading a lawless regime, who tried to steal the 2020. Only one party continues to support a regime filled with incompetent people who lied about the killings in MN. Only one party is violating the law requiring the release of all the Epstein files.

Your false equivalences are rejected.

 

[schmidlap]

The clumsy "but Biden" deflection has always been funny because the two people couldn't be any more different in temperament or actions.

But the voices they trust have painted him as Satan incarnate, so they've gotta mindlessly follow along.

The inevitable "But Biden..." deflection cries out for a descending duck every time.

 

[sealybobo]

President Trump has dropped unsubtle hints about his desire to cancel the November elections. “We have to even run against these people,” he said in a speech last month. “I won’t say cancel the election; they should cancel the election.” Mr. Trump didn’t stop there. “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election,” he mused a week later.

These remarks have caused understandable concern, but they are empty threats. Mr. Trump’s power depends on the appearance of winning elections, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with convincing the world he won in 2020. And control over elections is dispersed among thousands of officials across the country, making cancellation impossible.

But more to the point, it’s election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move. The goal is to keep elections going but without unseating those in power.

Look around the world. Vladimir Putin hasn’t canceled an election. Iran has regular elections. In the 21st century, the name of the game is “competitive authoritarianism,” in which democratic institutions and elections persist, but are hollowed out by authoritarian incumbents. Elections — even if they’re rigged — give rulers legitimacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/trump-cancel-elections-voting.html

Competitive authoritarian countries have democratic rules and hold competitive elections, but the party in charge is allowed to use various tactics to tilt the electoral playing field in its favor to maintain power. Republicans adding House Seats because otherwise they would lose power this year for example.​

Elected authoritarians, when they come to power, try to convert the state, which is supposed to be a neutral arbiter, into both a weapon and a shield. It's a weapon to be deployed against political rivals, and it is a shield to protect themselves and to protect their allies who engage in authoritarian or illegal behavior.

Trump's pardoning of the people convicted in the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol is a prime example.

"We never – when we coined this term 25 years ago – never imagined that we would apply it to the United States," said Levitsky.

Trump is following a familiar playbook crafted by leaders such as former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"When we began to see the Justice Department go after people who were public critics of Trump, when we began to see lawsuits against (the) media or attacks on universities that are viewed as critical of the government," said Levitsky, "all these things are raising the cost of opposition."

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Will democrats be identified as a hostile force and be outlawed?

 

[dblack]

If your D Party has any credibility and honor, they’d impeach and remove the warmongering Zionist pedo after the mid-terms.

As much as I'd like to see Trump frog-marched, I think that would be a horrible mistake. They wouldn't be able to remove him from office until very late in his term anyway. If Dems get Congress, they should just block all his bullshit and focus on electing a good replacement.

But they wont.

 

[Chuz Life]

... Will Trump be forced to bear the elective consequences of the first two years of his term?

Will he have his gold Congressional Carte Blanche revoked?

Will he be able to continue on his current retrograde trajectory?

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Will he see the light?
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Will he be able to prevent a democratic election in November?

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Your auguries, please.​

Hang on, let me get my cup ready.

 

[schmidlap]

Hang on, let me get my cup ready.

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Despite his cult's sustaining mug slogans, by multiple metrics, Trump continues to plummet.

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[kyzr]

Despite his cult's sustaining mug slogans, by multiple metrics, Trump continues to plummet.

Yeah, but Trump is twice as popular as democrats...so what?

 

[Chuz Life]

Despite his cult's sustaining mug slogans, by multiple metrics, Trump continues to plummet.

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Midterms the only poll that matters now (presently) to me.

You know what matters even more than that, to me?

Principle.

Trump closed the borders, gave us the best chance to criminalize abortion in the future, cut off the head of Iran's regime, made a shit-ton of leftardz cry, got rid of a shit-ton of Rinos, made sure we never had a president cackles, men out of women sports, put the eco nazis on their asses. . . . etc.

Your polls are not going to make me regret any of it.

 

[gipper]

As much as I'd like to see Trump frog-marched, I think that would be a horrible mistake. They wouldn't be able to remove him from office until very late in his term anyway. If Dems get Congress, they should just block all his bullshit and focus on electing a good replacement.

But they wont.

Removing him from office might have a beneficial effect on subsequent presidents.

At any rate, both parties are criminal organizations and have no interest in doing what’s best for Americans.

 

[BluesLegend]

Trump isn't going anywhere. But keep hoping

Trump has already accomplished more than the last 4 Dem presidents combined and he's not finished yet! Trump makes the Dem presidents look like the dipshit amateur government workers that they are.

 

[BluesLegend]

Midterms the only poll that matters now (presently) to me.

You know what matters even more than that, to me?

Principle.

Trump closed the borders, gave us the best chance to criminalize abortion in the future, cut off the head of Iran's regime, made a shit-ton of leftardz cry, got rid of a shit-ton of Rinos, made sure we never had a president cackles, men out of women sports, put the eco nazis on their asses. . . . etc.

Your polls are not going to make me regret any of it.

Trump is not trying to win a popularity contest or position himself for the post presidential book tour, Trump is actually doing the job of being president and making the entire Dem party look like idiots.