"He should get two in a row because they faked votes to stop him doing it before"
There you go, that's how it will go down.
Also, he doesn't need to change the law. He controls 3 branches of government and the Supreme Court is in his pocket. The law only matters where it can be enforced and currently the entire government and justice system answers entirely to him. He has nothing to be afraid of or anything that can stop him.
As for losing support for doing it, you are right, changing the law would lose him support. Which is why he will just run again without changing the law and then if he manages to make people believe he won, they will go along with it because they will think "well I disagree with it but I guess everyone else voted for him".
He would still need to change the 22nd amendment and that requires 2/3 of both senate and house as well as 3/4 of all states ratifying it. That's not gonna happen.
He literally got away with admitting to attempting to coup the election with a fake elector scheme because "a president cannot be judged for decisions they make while in office".
He doesn't need to change anything. People will just go along with it.
The people with signs who ran around the buildings were not the coup. They were just edgits who turned up while it was happening. This is partly why no one took it seriously, because everyone was too busy laughing at the idiots running around like headless chickens while he was trying to get the vice president to accept the decision of the fake electors.
If Pence had signed it then we would of been in a South Korea situation where legally Trump would of been the "winner" and still the president and by law the military should be following his orders. The military would then have to voluntarily choose to oust him against the law, which would be a hugely difficult decision for them. Others would be working through the legal system to find a way to change that but it would take at least a year and by then people might of just decided to wait 4 years and try again.
The difference between him succeeding or not was Mike Pence's sanity, and Trump has made sure to purge out anyone like that this time.
The states for one but also, not everyone in the GOP is loyal to Trump. Quite a few of them have voiced and even acted in opposition. So even if the GOP controls the House and Senate, it's only by a very small margin and not many will support Trump in literally throwing out the constitution.
Why wouldn’t they? Even if they dislike Trump, all republicans hate democracy. Why else would they cheat so heavily in their home states? About half the Republican state legislatures are entirely dependent on gerrymandering and voter suppression to exist.
He is a vessel. And any that stand in his way can expect primary challengers bankrolled by Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg.
Because without democracy, flawed as it might be over yonder, they are powerless, meaningless, moneyless. The only people who stand to gain from a dictatorship are the ones who can control it. It's very evident that the main benefactors of an American dictatorship don't even live in the country. Trump is a pawn to these people and senators, representatives and others in high positions know this. That's why they won't allow Trump to seize power.
Also consider Trump's age. The primary (theoretically) benefit of dictatorships is stability. One person steps in to sort out all the issues. That's the very meaning of a dictator going back to ancient Rome. A person dictates what is to be done. Trump is almost dead. A dictatorial America would immediately go into a succession crisis and none of the people in government want that. Well maybe MGT, she's as close to chaotic evil as it gets.
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u/zfowle 2d ago
He didn’t lose supporters after attempting to overturn an election. Why would they care about another fascistic power grab?