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I don't think it matters to them, tbh I'm expecting the midterms to be the deathblow to US liberal democracy. ICE agents are gonna be terrorizing swing districts if not outright raiding voting centers, and I can't imagine that the current Trump & co. would honor results that they know will strip of them power. Idk, just feels like the current Trump coalition is pretty deadset on ending liberal democracy, and that's gonna include ignoring/throwing out any election results they don't like.
Im not an American. Do you believe Trump would/could run for a 3rd term and win ? I guess thats the question since that would be the most blatant death of liberal democracy I could imagine.
Mind you I dont think it matters thaaaat much. Republicans could just run a lot less charismatic candidate like Vance and fix the elections as you said. Would give them the out that the elections were / are fair even if its bullshit.
I guess it comes down wether the people in power wanna play pretend that the USA is still a democracy (which does come with a number of benefits in the west)
If Trump does run for a 3rd term and it's treated as a legitimate election, then he's already won.
if trump won in 2020 like his supports claim this is already his 3rd term
i think he'll die before 2028.
yeah the problem with all this speculation about 2028 is it ignores that he is 80 years old and believes exercise is bad for you. but then again i thought biden was gonna be dead by the end of 2021 and he just beat cancer.
No fucking way, he beat it???!!! why do ghouls always live forever...
(edit: added punctuation to clarify tone)
Unlike with Juche Necromancy, Imperialist Necromancy cannot bring you back to life once you've died. But every time a working class person dies to make line go up, milliseconds are added to the unnatural lifespan of the practitioner.
I think if he was 20 years younger, absolutely.
I expect him to at least be bed ridden by 2028, if he even lives that long.
That would be so funny if we get a couple years of bedridden Harkonnen-maxxing Trump
Maybe not worth much, but might be warm news. There's a guy on ig who has a doctorate in neurosomething (he's a lib tho) who says trump's got fronto-temporal dementia. He consistently puts out videos with other specialists on that field talking about the symptoms he's shown in public (leaning forward, confusing greenland with iceland...) and says trump's got 1-3 months left to live.
Confusing Greenland and Iceland might also just be par for the course American understanding of geography
IMO if he actually only had 3 months left to live they'd be acting even more brazen. Either that's a reach or he believes he's immortal.
There’s no evidence anyone in Trump’s orbit has ever listened to a doctor about anything.
It's a mix of the "people" in his environment trying every option possible to delay the inevitable, and him believing he's immortal. But he's a 79 year old with dementia so he could as well think he's peter pan or something.
Every day around mid day i expect to read "Trump found dead when his nurse went to wake him".
He and his goons have repeatedly said he plans to "run for a third term" even though that's not a thing, what they actually mean is he intends to be president for the rest of his life no matter what people put in the ballot boxes and no matter whether that life ends in 2027 or 2197.
I think he absolutely would, if he was 5 or 10 years younger.
if he runs for a third term he's already broken with the norms of liberal democracy in this country to such a great extent that rigging the election for him to win would be a given, an afterthought. he's not gonna take that step if there's any risk of losing involved
probably a moot point though given his rapidly declining health
At this point I'm expecting Trump to just say midterms are cancelled and Republicans are in charge and for Dems to just roll over and capitulate.
Yea I agree with the assessment of using ICE to bludgeon areas they want to maintain control of, or just outright arresting the Dem candidate and tossing them into a camp
Maybe Dems will hand it to them with the caveat that certain districts with an average household income above $125,000 in locations within 20 miles of the city center of all cities starting with the letter R get to have a symbolic, non-binding election every 2 years, thus keeping liberal democracy alive? I bet you’d feel really silly if that happened.