You’re right in that, I just did not want to put that in words yet :-]

I wonder how much another overwhelming fraudulous win for MAGA would be ignored, because it definitely is a clear sign bridges were burned.

The one thing that would have stopped all this and put things on a different path is immediately lock up Trump and co-conspirators under solid treason charges, it was easy to prove as well.

But the wishy washy and slow way the investigation and justice machine rolled is what gave Trump all the chances.

He got to puff up his ego for years on being unjustly attacked, and (re)grow the cult around him.

He got his supreme court to give him king-like powers (and now he claims the rest of the kingly might and immunity).

He got Elon Musk to spy on everyone, steal all private data including home adresses to sick cultists to… and Elon now has the means to destroy the financial transaction of anyone against the regime…

The blame for it all was not directly on Biden, the democrats nor on the elections themselves, this was on a system that was apathetic and waiting out time for the one thing to happen.

And again the system is waiting out time to see what happens at the next elections, but that will turn out to be a mirage, Trump and co will not relinquish power anymore.

All of it was stopped if Trump was locked up. He should never have been a 2nd candidate, not just not eligible but locked up for decades.

The democrats would indeed need to find more charismatic leadership with fighting spirit, but the MAGA camp had been given a crippling blow.

Now the world watches as the USA destroys itself permanently, has its influence drift away on the winds, and loses everything to its ages old communist enemy Russia.

I think you’re right, but the chance is very high they will cancel midterms shortly before the date.

Probably spouting some excuse. Either in the line of it undermining “democracy” because Trump was already chosen, or they’ll go the way of it being a plan to block the current path for the USA so it will be postponed until the plan is on more solid grounds, “for the good of the country”.

If they do let the midterms proceed, Trump will dismiss the results whatever they are, citing that by then he only has governing power.

He already has made an executive order that only he and a sole AG decide what the law is…

A promise was made that when he was chosen he’d make it so that there would be no need to vote again…

Everybody seems to hold on to the midterms as the slot where things will turn around again, but the project 2025 camp has plans to close this window for sure. And frankly, it feels by then fear will rule all and the slippery slope has shifted to a freefall.