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They have been practicing, for a year.
No, they haven't.
That stuff is the kind of thing that I fully and completely think that Trump might try to do - stretching the stuff that they can plausibly (even straining plausibility to the extreme) claim is actually within their authority, in an effort to mess around with the elections. It's the stuff that's extreme but "safe" enough so that if it doesn't work you're not going to get hauled off to state prison for inarguably using force to threaten elections officials (or whatever)
What I'm talking about is the stuff for which there is no fig leaf. No plausible legal basis. Military dictatorship type things. The stuff that no court will sanction and that no government officials would do if they don't have literal guns pointing at them. And there's not the slightest indication that Trump is at all willing to do stuff like that, because they haven't at all. Else they wouldn't keep losing and losing and losing and not getting what they want. Again, the stuff that gets you imprisoned or executed if your team ever loses power.
That's why I keep posing this question. The stuff in the first basket is possible, dare I say likely. But it can't let Trump keep the Presidency. All that stuff that's "safe" enough that it can be written about in the paper but doesn't result in Tulsi Gabbard being immediately arrested on state charges? None of that is powerful enough to keep the Presidency. The stuff in the second basket is the stuff that puts us into actual military dictatorship area, not just bending rules to the breaking point - but that's the stuff that Trump hasn't been doing and is too cowardly to try.
And that's why all of this is a little crazy, IMHO. Trump will certainly mess with the elections, but none of the stuff he's going to do is enough to make him remain President in 2029. There does exist a universe of stuff that eliminates the Presidency as an elected position, but Trump has shown zero indication he's willing to step that far over the line or that he has the charisma/leadership/bravery to get anyone else to do it for him.
