He has a kid literally named BARON. If the constitutional term limit of two is violated, then the age to be President surely can be. Plus you get the added bonus of a clueless kid that can be manipulated easier!
I am being sarcastic, but also slightly scared that’s how it would play out.
Well if his health continues as it appears it is, he may actually be president for life. And at the same time not make it until the end of his second term.
I like your optimism.
I just read David A. Graham’s Atlantic piece, “President for Life,” and I cannot help but feel like I have been living in a different timeline from the people now acting surprised. The article sounds the alarm about Trump’s slide into authoritarianism and the idea that he might try to stay in office beyond two terms. Fair enough. But it reads like someone who just woke up to find the house on fire and forgot that half the neighborhood was already shouting about the smoke seven years ago.
The first term was the alarm bell. Trump’s use of “acting” officials, his purges of the civil service, the “deep state” rhetoric, and the early moves to centralize executive power were all trial runs. The Heritage Foundation and its allies were already putting together the plan that would later become Project 2025. Anyone who was paying attention knew what was happening. So why does The Atlantic act like this is a fresh discovery?
Project 2025 is not a rumor or a conspiracy theory. It is a public document that explains, in detail, how to replace thousands of federal workers with loyalists and bring the entire bureaucracy under direct presidential control. It also lays out plans to politicize the Justice Department and inject “biblical values” into public policy. It is a blueprint for authoritarian rule written in polite think-tank language. Yet Graham’s article barely mentions it. He focuses on Trump’s personality rather than the machinery built to keep him in power.
What frustrates me most is the media cycle around all this. Every time Trump pushes a boundary, outlets like The Atlantic react as if democracy is dying for the first time. They publish the same moral panic, everyone nods along, and then a month later it fades away until the next “crisis.” That cycle has been going on since 2016. It gives readers emotional relief instead of political understanding. It also lets liberal institutions pretend they are the resistance when they are really just late to the fight.
The truth is that none of this is new. Authoritarianism in the United States has been developing in the open, one administrative decision at a time. Trump is not the cause so much as the symptom of a system that values profit and control over democracy. Project 2025 just puts that instinct into writing. It is the manual that turns grievance into government. You cannot fight this by pretending it started yesterday.
If we want to stop what is coming, we have to stop acting shocked every time the obvious happens. Trump’s power grab is not an accident. It is the continuation of a project that was planned, funded, and rehearsed during his first term. The alarm did not just start ringing. Some of us never stopped hearing it.
President for life may hopefully mean shorter than what it seems like currently
A Kings fate is often regicide.
Not in the United States of Obedience.
Oh hey, you again,
Per our agreement, please hold all complaints until 7/12/2178
I very much enjoy that I occupy a space in your mind.
I figure any time you’re replying to me is a time you’re not being a pest to someone else
🫡 thanks for your service.
I really like that he seemed to think it wasn’t an effective tactic, but it sure seemed to keep him busy all day instead of bothering other people.
Thanks for being the lightning rod for the FUD spreaders.
That tactic is about as effective as a peaceful protest.
7/12/2178
You could also be out buying ammo or whatever instead of doing this.
I could just be like you and enjoy what’s happening.
They will eventually attempt to prevent anyone who registered/voted Democrat from purchasing firearms.
Buy them now. Help everyone you know get armed.
He shouldn’t bother, I mean he’s only got a couple of years left on earth. Why go to all the trouble and work.
Because it secures the future of the regime. That’s how kings work
Because otherwise the rest of his life is a trial.
Again it’s probably not that long. How much does it matter.? I guess he doesn’t see it like that.
He’s on the final stage of malignant narcissism. He’s gonna want to hurt as many people on his way out as he can.
Dude literally doesn’t have that long to live. How does he think that’s going to work!?
Doesn’t matter about him when it comes to that (not discounting the damage he can do in then interim), the result us we may have some shitty royal family with one of his offspring taking over or some other awful dictator that will continue in the same vein.
Just because he eventually dies doesn’t mean things go back to normal or get better.
I’m not questioning his motives in the context of things turning to normal when he eventually dies. I’m questioning his motives in the context that his actions seem to indicate that he’ll live forever. As if somehow Trump believes biology doesn’t effect him.
But then we’re talking about a guy who thinks a glass of water destroys magnets.
He’s a movie trope dictator. Acting like he can live consequence-free, forever; and secretly knowing he won’t, so his decisions are even worse.
If you’re rich enough, you get to pay somebody beat up this dude named Peter and then you own the key
/s
Sure pal keep believing you can live forever, he should be happy to live to the end of his term, unless one of his diseases ends his reign.
