Both of my muses, Krugman and Richardson, write about the possibility that Trump and his legions will end American democracy in the next fifteen months. Neither, I fear, are being alarmist. With Trump, there is always the dynamic of "kidding on the square" where he throws out some outlandish thing - annexing Greenland? - and then sees what happens. With the Greenland thing, he hasn't followed through on that and his attention wandered to other things, but his current outward musings about using emergency powers in American cities seems to be a clear precursor to interfering in the 2026 midterms.
Trump knows that if he does not radically disrupt the democratic process, he will lose the House and possibly the Senate, even with a favorable map. As he did in 2020 election, he is musing about extralegal measures to make this happen. The difference is that in 2020 there were a handful of Republicans willing to stand up to him. That is simply not the case now.
Was the ICE raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia a warning sign to Governor Brian Kemp? Maybe. If you cross Trump, you will feel his wrath. (This is one way that Trump's death and replacement with Vance would - I think - be an improvement. Vance has no principles, but he lacks that feral vindictiveness that is the core of Trump's being.)
Trump is manifestly unpopular. Trump's sinking deeper into the Epstein scandal. The economy is weakening. This makes him more dangerous, not less. Something I hope that Democratic Senators understand.
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