Trump already tried once to cling to power via fraud and violence. Everything he has done over the past six months virtually screams that he will do the same thing again, but with far more planning and preparation.
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I totally agree with this and I want to advance it a bit further... It's not Trump not leaving in 28. That's the next crisis. It's Republicans not leaving the Congress in 26.
aug 23, 2025, 4:03 pm • 9 0 • view
As a practical matter, this might be the better outcome for liberal democracy. The most likely electoral outcome in 2026 – a Democrat-controlled House – will be rendered impotent. Let MAGA steal that fairly worthless prize and put its cards on the table before 2028.
aug 23, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I disagree that a dem house would be impotent. What we have now is an impotent Republican congress. So blocking the Dems would not be a useless price. It would be a supreme victory. Additionally, it would demonstrate the ability to stay in power despite losing elections.
aug 23, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm doubtful that he will live up to 2028. Maybe it's just hope but there ARE signs....
aug 23, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
and he was rewarded for doing so; that's the most important part
aug 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s already trying to exert federal control over elections and bully states out of using mail-in ballots. At the same time he’s normalizing troop domestic deployments in cities on pretexts that are utterly laughable. You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see an ugly design here.
aug 23, 2025, 3:58 pm • 91 13 • view
Indeed, you’d have to be a little obtuse NOT to see it.
aug 23, 2025, 3:59 pm • 68 7 • view
"I don’t think mainstream journalism is filled with conservatives, precisely, but it is with people who would rather have a beer with chris rufo than jamelle bouie" bsky.app/profile/esch... "Rufo is associated with IM-1776. Everyone just continues to act like Rufo is just some guy off the street."
aug 23, 2025, 4:56 pm • 6 2 • view
we can only see it when it's, say, the government of Venezuela, not our own government
aug 23, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 1 • view
You would have to be a professional not-seer.
aug 23, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
There was a time when I would have thought that there were too many other people who would want “their turn” to go along, but that was also a time when I didn’t think Congress would just cede all their power to him in exchange for comparatively nothing.
aug 23, 2025, 4:36 pm • 2 1 • view
He's already working to subvert the midterm elections, and what's the likelihood he meekly accepts a Dem majority House?
aug 23, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Once you accept that we'll have to make him leave in 2029, there's no reason not to make him leave today.
aug 23, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
It is doing to take millions of citizens surrounding DC forcing the army to stand down to remove them from the capital, and there's like 15 elected Democrats so far who've shown they can lead under those conditions.
aug 23, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view