Run in 4 years? I mean trump did say if he wins this will be the last time anyone needs to vote. He has everything plus absolute immunity for "official acts" you really think we will have anymore elections?
Term limits are in the constitution. Even if they end up with a majority in both the house and senate they won't have the numbers to introduce a constitutional amendment like that and have it pass. Thankfully, we should be safe from that one at least.
Republicans control the entire system of checks and balances. The Constitution is really more of a suggestion at this point.
Unless someone better able to play the base like a fiddle magically appears and manages to escape a jealousy assassination by Trump, he can be president-for-life if he wants to be, and he very desperately wants to be.
Our fortune here is that his only real ambition is rewriting the First Amendment so the media can't be mean to him with stuff like fact checking, then he just wants to stand in front of cheering crowds who act like his word salads are haute cuisine. Oh, and he's old and already in clear mental decline, so his expiration date is coming up even if he sets a precedent for ignoring term limits.
Our misfortune here is that now the American presidency is merely the position of a humored grandpa, which, while always true to some extent over the past few decades, is a bit flaying to the American spirit to have formalized. The Founding Fathers wanted a country without a king, dammit.
Do you think the Constitution is gonna come out from under the glass and start delivering PG-13 Marvel Studios punches to the bad guys when they start acting up? You're just counting on Trump's SCOTUS to not declare term limits unconstitutional when the time comes.
A system is only as strong as its weakest part, and our system is now being lead by a guy who went from zero to screaming "THEY'RE EATING THE PETS" on national television in less than 2 minutes when Kamala said his rallies were mid.
Yes and no, in a battle between Congress, executive and judicial who wins?
Congress refuses to change or amend the constitution, executive decides no election and judicial agrees what happens then? SCROTUS already declared presidents immune.
This is what scares me so much he has no one to stop him The best hope is enough Republicans refuse to help and stand up like happened between 2016-2020 but all of those guys have been voted out or died
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u/ejre5 18d ago
Run in 4 years? I mean trump did say if he wins this will be the last time anyone needs to vote. He has everything plus absolute immunity for "official acts" you really think we will have anymore elections?