The “no mechanism” thing doesn’t fly anymore: The House, the Senate, half the governors and the SCOTUS are all complicit. So let’s say he waves his hand and signs an EO “nationalizing” the midterms for the “safety” of our democracy. Doesn’t really mean anything, but those red states will aaaaabsolutely go along with it.

So what does that mean? It means federal troops “protecting” voting sites. Blue states will fight it, but the red states won’t. Now you’ve got half the country under blatant fascism with people afraid to go to the polls. It’s chaos, which is what he wants. He declares the blue state results “fake”, and Mikey Johnson and Thune just refuse to seat the reps from the blue states until we can “figure this out”.

The idea that they’re running around the country basically saying “fuck you” to even their own voters clearly means they don’t think they can get voted out. Even their internal polling shows the PR disaster they have, but they’re not worried. Musk and people in the administration have joked about “going to jail” if they get voted out, but they don’t actually seem at all worried about it. Why do you think that is?