As stupid is and stupid does, Trump is setting the stage for his big November “dems cheat” push by signing an executive order to federalize elections so he can cheat and then claim that Republicans won the mid-terms. Of course he can’t do that. But according to Trump, he can do anything he wants. Doesn’t mean it will pass any smell tests, but he will do whatever it takes for Republicans to win in November, up to and including shutting down the elections, federalizing elections in states he knows he and his toads will lose in, or short of that, just refusing to acknowledge that they lost and lost bigly.
Remember how he couldn’t handle his initial loss in 2020? He had his worshipers attack the capitol, and because Mike Pence wouldn’t go along with his shenanigans, he attempted to hang his own Vice President because of it. Trump knows that if he loses the mid-terms his kingdom collapses overnight, and he will be restrained by Congress for everything he tries to do from then on, making him virtually, and physically impotent. That is one big thing Trump will refuse to go along with.
You can also imagine his little toadie Mike Johnson will refuse to accept the outcome too. They will claim dems cheated, or that Trump federalized the elections by executive order, and he/they will refuse to seat dems that won because of it. Court cases will need to be filed, emergency petitions will go through the motions which will take months (remember 2020?), and then it will have to go before SCOTUS to decide the outcomes — which will take a year for them to decide. That is when the final nail in democracy and the country will be hammered in.
SCOTUS knows that in order for the Trump/Republican coup to be finalized, they must hand over the reigns of power to Trump and Republicans unconditionally. Will they do it? So far there is nothing stopping them from doing so. They know the public will bitch and moan, maybe even riot, but maybe that is what the big warehouses are being built for, so they can put millions of Americans into them. Truth is, they don’t care about what the public wants or votes for. All they care about is what they want, and that will be all that matters in the end.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/26/trump-elections-executive-order-activists
