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You give a good argument of why a strategic, non-unhinged (hinged?) president wouldn't cancel elections and then ask why the previous ones didn't. It's like you "but why male models"ed yourself. Or am I misunderstanding something?
Basically, in the last couple sentences, I am saying that even if someone rejects one or both of the two starting premises (i.e. that elections have strong constitutional protection, and that election results are under capitalist control), then why have midterms never been cancelled before, and if never before, then why now?
OK, so you're asking, from the perspective of a lib who thinks Rs and Ds are actually opposed, why one hasn't seized power previously. Hm. I think they'd say that all previous presidents really did love american norms and institutions in their own way and trump is a unique bad guy, first ruzzian president, etc.
Yeah pretty much.
My response would be "no good presidents lol
"...or on a day where I'm not absolutely fucking out-of-control furious at life and 🧊, I would carefully but firmly explain that Trump is really the logical conclusion of the 
project as opposed to some aberration.