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A) He’s following China’s playbook. B) there is shit in the Project 2025 document that outlines this sorta play, here is a link to the summary.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/liza-gordon-rogers/how-project-2025-would-endanger-our-elections/
If we get to the point where, “For the safety of America, we won’t have an other election until the Democrats are stopped!”, I won’t be surprised. The GOP Does not plan on turning over control now that they have it.
2026 will be a repeat of 2024. All the dirty tricks will be pulled to ensure they face no consequences.
Worse in my opinion. They can openly manipulate the media and funding easier. The shots at the presses freedoms are going unchecked. If you make money off media/journalism and the offices are allowed to simply tell media outlets they can't attend anymore they are going to fall in line or lose their income and die. Shit even that dumb Epstein document thing was clearly a shot at freedom of the press. They knew most of it was already given to the public previously, yet wanted to control how the media reacted to Trump being tied to it. So they specifically launched it via channels they knew would defend Trump no matter what.
Will, I don't think anybody needs such drama, just that election will elect whom they need with 146% certainty. That's a reference to the last Putin's re-election.
By the way, Putin's re-elections have been proven mathematically to be falsifications through and through, say, Russian Central Election Committee obfuscated their "public" (scraping-protected webpages, say, dynamically shuffled fonts, with lines and lines of text) data, it was still deobfuscated, where they managed to hide moments of actually throwing in extra ballots, doing carusels or whatever, it was still mathematically proven that those dynamics do not belong to a normal election. But all those other violations were detected on scale in all recent elections in Russia.
And nothing. Public outrage is not as powerful as mechanisms that react to it, if there's no such - then no cinema.
I think in US Trump is doing this the simple way, while in the EU both elections matter less and bureaucracies are already strong, but too regulated, so they want more surveillance and communications' regulation - to be able to prevent those trying to use accountability mechanisms and organize from being heard, maybe even silently detaining\murdering such people, special services are always prepared for that kind of activity, and if there are no safe communications, a group of nations with institutions can turn into something as miserable as Russia very quickly, silently and conclusively.
It's a world tendency, I think. Even China before the last 10 years or so was, apparently (never been in China), a non-democratic state with some rule of law. Turkey was on the rise after a couple of decades of normal democracy after its last military dictatorship. In Iran people like Ahmadinejad were in visible posts and it seemed to be almost becoming democratic.
In Russia in my childhood everyone around me just believed we're past dictatorships and Putin will leave when his term ends.
So - I think we live in an interesting time where the humanity once again learns the meanings of "common sense", "natural law" and "human dignity". And why sovcits are the wisest of political marginals.