I’m reading that Trump and Musk are going to try and stop the 2026 Mid-term elections.
Well, that ain’t happening, because they can’t stop them.
Why not?
Because ALL U.S. Elections take place AT THE STATE LEVEL.
We do not have “national elections” in the normal sense of the word, only presidential elections which all take place IN THE STATES.
The only mention of elections is Article II, Section 1, Clauses 1-4
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/#article-2-section-1
But what is more interesting, is that I think it’s possible that because of all the sturm und drang that fElon and his DOGEtwinks are stirring up with their unabashed demolition of the federal government maycome back to bite them all in the ass in just two years (if we can get that far before Trump just turns over the country to Putin).
For why I think this, let us take a stroll down history lane.
In 1924, then Republican President Calvin Coolidge oversaw the reduction in the top marginal tax rate to 25% (because of course the GOP was clamoring to reduce taxes on the wealthy back then, just like today).
After five years of that?
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. The beginning of the Great Depression.
Come 1932 the nation reputiated the leadership of the people who sank the Ship of State into a fiscal quagmire it took a decade to recover from the worst of.
UPDATE: inserted here because I just forgot it was missing before posting the story:
I don’t think the voters will reject the GOP in 2026 because they’ve wised up about who and what Trump actually is. But because his idiot ideas and the actions they’ve already started, are going to send the country into a gigantic recession faster than you can say “Now we understand how Hitler happened to Germans”.
Maybe, unless the Republicans have an actual frickin’ come to jesus moment sometime in the next two months, we’ll have another Depression, which will kick off a global depression.
You know, just like what happened a century ago, that resulted in the election of FDR and 40 years in the wilderness for the conservatives.
From the US Senate official URL:
https://www.senate.gov/about/parties-leadership/1932-political-realignment.htm
A Momentous Political Realignment
November 8, 1932
In 1932 a political tidal wave slammed into the Senate. On November 8 of that year, Senate Democrats scored one of the greatest electoral victories in their party’s history.
Going into the 1932 election, Republicans controlled the Senate by a one-vote margin. President Herbert Hoover had campaigned for reelection on the premise that the Great Depression’s death grip on the American economy was gradually loosening, but the improving economic numbers on which he based his optimism abruptly turned downward in the weeks before election day. Senate Republican Majority Leader James Watson, known as “Sunny Jim” for his normally upbeat demeanor, offered the president a dark assessment. When Hoover professed to be encouraged by the large crowds that turned out during his cross-country rail tour, Watson advised, “They are only here to see a president of the United States.” Fearful about what lay in store on election day owing to the souring economy and resentment over the failed experiment with Prohibition, Watson continued, “We are all going into the ash heap together.” As the majority leader predicted, both he and Hoover went down to defeat on November 8. They had lots of company. Like many other Americans, nine incumbent Republican senators lost their jobs that year.
On November 8, 1932, Franklin Roosevelt became the first Democrat in 80 years to win the presidency by a majority vote, rather than a plurality. On Capitol Hill, House Democrats gained 97 seats for a nearly three-to-one margin over the Republicans. In the Senate, Democrats picked up 12 seats, making it the party’s largest two-year gain to that time. (In 1958, Senate Democrats set a new record by adding 15 members.) The Senate’s new 59-vote Democratic majority in 1933 was predominately liberal in political orientation, but it included three conservatives who ended up serving longer than any of their more progressive classmates. They were Nevada’s Patrick McCarran, Virginia’s Harry Byrd, Sr., and Georgia’s Richard Russell.
The results of 1932 echoed through the next two Senate election cycles. In 1934, when the Republican senators who were swept into office with the 1928 election of President Hoover stood for reelection, Democrats picked up 10 more seats for a total of 69. In 1936 that number rose to 76, causing the remaining 16 Republicans to sit quietly as the Democrats’ increasingly polarized factions proved that there can be a majority that is too large.
[emphasis added for clarity]
I believe that what could happen in 2026 is another REALIGNMENT in American politics.
The Republicans have FINALLY gone too far and there is good reason to believe that they will be soundly rejected for it in just two years.
So don't believe the talk that Trump is going to stop elections.
HE CAN’T.
Only the State Legislatures could do that.
Hunker down, try and survive. BE SURE to check your voter registration regularly.