[Loughla]

You joke about these things but I'm afraid that's where we're heading.

Trump will close off as much opposition as he can in the next two years. Then spend a year convincing people that term limits aren't required by the constitution. By then we'll have had so many scandals and constitutional crisis events that just get ignored that it will happen.

Am I being overdramatic? Because this feels different. It feels openly hostile.

[voidfunc]

I wasn't joking.

[nrclark]

I don't think you're being overdramatic. At this point, I'd give 50/50 odds that Trump will install himself as a Putin-style dictator (if we're not already there). "Elections" will happen, but the outcome will always be the same at the national level.