On Wednesday 14 January Trump sat down on with Reuters’ reporters and said, that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.” On Sunday 11 January, he told reporters from the NY Times that he regretted NOT seizing ballot boxes after the 2020 elections., Before the 2020 elections, he quite famously telegraphed that if he lost, it would be because of fraud, the so-called stolen election. . And, just last week — if Trump 1.0 was measured in dog years, Trump 2.0 is measured in Plutonian years — he told Republicans he’d be impeached if they lost the House in the mid-terms.
Trump has never won anything fairly, why would he start in 2026 when he has so much on the line? He may or may not have directly colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Paul Manafort clearly did, but the rest of the campaign may have just incentivized the Russians and coordinated more indirectly with them. After losing the 2020 election numerous schemes were hatched in the dirty back offices of the White House to steal the election culminating in the 6 January Insurrection. Losing the 2020 election and being removed from office is still one of his biggest narcissistic wounds that he needs to avenge. And, in 2024, he won all seven of the swing states even though he barely won the election. That just doesn’t pass the smell test.
In the run up to the 2026 elections, he is leaning on states to gerrymander their representative districts to heavily favor Republicans so they won’t lose the House or only suffer minimal losses. He has ICE thugs on the streets of Democratic cities to intimidate voting while attacking vote by mail. You really think he’s going to accept losses in the House and Senate in 2026?
To me, it seems like we’re going to have one of the most controversial, challenged, violent elections since Reconstruction. Trump is determined not to lose by whatever means he deems necessary.
What do you think? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Image Attribution
This image was found on the Progressive Policy website using a Creative Commons search.
The Psy of Life 
Trump doesn’t have the ability to cancel elections. Republicans more broadly can use various vote-suppression tactics, the same general kind of things that have been happening for decades — but the effects of those things are marginal. Several of the red states have refused to impose super-gerrymanders despite Trump’s pressure. Even the gerrymandering in Texas seems likely to backfire. Those districts were re-drawn based on the assumption that Hispanics would continue to vote Republican in the same proportions as they did in 2024. Current polling suggests that they will not.
There are dangers in claiming that elections might be canceled or effectively stolen. Such claims will just make people less likely to vote, believing it to be pointless. Indeed, such claims are de facto just another vote-suppression tactic working to aid the Republicans.
At the rate Trump’s dementia seems to be progressing, I will be surprised if he’s still alive this coming November, anyway.
LikeLiked by 1 person
How are we going to just simply ignore the votes of all those who opened the door to the present administration? This seems to be what America wanted so let the game play out and remember that good always triumphs in the end. The idea of what is good and evil in this particular case rests with the will of the People as always. It is a matter of perspective.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Howdy John!
Last I checked, the results of the last election have been honored and the named winner is in office. It was 2020 and the legal loser that both legally and illegally challenged the outcome of an election and tried to defy the peaceful transfer of power. That I think that there was malfeasance in election 2024 is my opinion and has not ignored anyone’s vote.
As I’ve frequently stated, I prefer pre Dobbs America to post. And, the thousands of being people harmed by Trump across the country and the hundreds of thousands that he has killed in the past year probably have a pretty clear idea of which is evil and which is good.
Huzzah!
Jack
LikeLike
He can’t not try. In fact, even if he knew or believed that his anointed candidates would all win in landslides, he would still try to cheat, because to him winning by cheating is better than winning honestly.
LikeLiked by 1 person
His narcissism makes him fear loss so much that he cannot help but cheat. He is driven to cheat just to relieve his own anxiety and fear of loss. Cheating is so deeply planted in his being that he cannot consider doing anything else no matter what the odds are.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep, and he would rather cheat because that proves he’s smarter than the other guy.
LikeLiked by 1 person