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I've said it before, the damage has been done, the current status quo will not go away.

Flip the house, flip everything, at best the regime will ignore it all ...

In the short term there will be no repercussions for the regime to go on unhindered. Heck they already mostly ignore congress as it is right now.

2028 will not bring a peaceful transition, ALL those in power now can't afford to let it go, not only will it ruin their plans if they do, it will also bring possible criminal investigations into their self enrichment and other damaging actions. There can not be a single scapegoat so the pact will stay close to protect the whole.

The only ones to bring this all to a sudden halt with the least victims and uproar is the army, and then the whining starts:
"I was just following orders".

If by a miracle the regime does fall unexpectedly I expect a carte blanche pardon for those in control now.

I suspect the population needs to see nothing happen if they vote in a blue wave, and I suspect it’s going to need to get worse.. not that I don’t support voting, but right now there’s still too much faith that the system will correct itself. If you aren’t constantly consuming political news, you might think the lip service is actually doing something, and with the constant barrage of shit, people can honestly be forgiven too since extent for not knowing exactly how things are playing out with challenges and stuff.

It would be nice if it did correct course with voting, but I don’t think it will. At least not without a bigger shakeup (like actually progressives in place of dinos, flipping gerrymandered red districts, etc.) than 2026 midterms are likely to deliver..

Do you know why Republicans do exactly what the regime wants? It's because Trump has a cult, that is exceedingly violent and unhinged. They threaten to murder their congresspeople, rape their wives, kill their children, burn their houses down. I'm not even kidding, look it up for yourself. Straight domestic terrorism stuff. Many Republicans are acting out of fear of their constituents, and it's extremely effective. So...

Exactly both sides are equally complicit In this coup and need to be treated as such. They need to be walked to the trials all together

Republican senators just were asked to say "yes" to convict for an obvious insurrection and if they did, Trump would have been constitutionally barred from even running for president again.

One word. That's all they needed to offer. They have proven they literally will not spend a single word to save democracy.

First there'll be a media campaign with ppl shouting "let him finish". Get his magats riled up against all who oppose a 3rd term.

The elections most likely will have highly suspicious numbers, but that will be covered up or ignored happily.

And when he slithers into his 3rd term his regime is from then on glued to the desk... I still suspect the term king will be used, perhaps they think that gives him the 3rd term loophole :-)

Trump will use his "ICE" army to terrorize anyone against his regime untill he is sure the Insurrection act will stick and he can let the national guard start shooting with live ammo...

Honestly, I would expect a new Nullification Crisis much sooner than 2028, sooner even than midterms, inasmuch as the federal government, under this regime, is literally waging war -- or trying very hard to start a real one -- against the state of Minnesota, among others. A state could easily say, "Enough!" long before November rolls around.

I'm not saying Walz would do this, but hypothetically, a state that has enough of this federal incursion that finds no real respite in the courts, or finds itself being actively bankrupted or otherwise destroyed, could simply start nullifying the most onerous orders, or really, any federal orders, because at that point, restraint would make no real difference, as hypothetically every other imaginable remedy would already have been tried. Its exercise would hypothetically be the step immediately prior to secession, probably discussed directly as such, and like 1832 before it, the direct cause would likely be financial because unlike then, today the executive is already engaging in the use of force against a state.

The interesting thing, to me, is that the Nullification Crisis ended peacefully and fairly quickly in spite of the Force Bill because at the end of the day, both parties strove to find a solution that would preserve the union. Andrew Jackson being marginally less shitty and somewhat more sane than the current executive, they succeeded in that, so the Force Bill was never relied upon to use military might against a state's nullification.

That is NOT the case here. In fact, we're already past it. There have already been National Guard troops in the streets, on orders that were subsequently deemed unlawful by the courts, and we haven't even really gotten near the federal defiance of Posse Comitatus and/or formally using the Insurrection Act yet, events that are almost certain to come as well. The fed does NOT want peace: if it can push a state to open fighting it will, and as far as I can see is already working strenuously to that end wherever it can. So from where I'm sitting, at that final point of provocation, whatever it ends up being, state nullification doesn't look very much different from secession at all, either in execution or federal response to same.

Also, not really on topic but I'm just going to throw in a gentle reminder that it would take no more than a handful of Republicans in the House and Senate to put a stop to all this madness TODAY. That's not an absolute majority, of course, but it is more than enough to rein in that tertiary syphilitic madness enough to make the threats to both domestic and international targets stop instantly.

this is all assuming that Dems don’t immediately cave

That bit sounds implausible.

It’s martial law in October 2026, he will have full control by the end of the year.