He'll have ICE patrol polling places to ensure only white people can vote.
Democrats will Tweet about it.
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I don't mean to complain. But I came to this thread for jokes not for likely outcomes.
That might happen
This is the one I see as most likely. Post an ICE squad outside random polling places in big cities throughout the day (and every day in states with early voting), ostensibly to "ensure vote security" and "make sure illegal immigrants don't vote like they have before." Move them around throughout the day so you never know when or where they'll show up (I don't think they have the manpower to really sit a squad at every polling place in every big city). That will discourage some non-trivial number of people from showing up to vote for fear of getting murdered or disappeared. Given the margins for everything, that's probably enough to ensure a landslide win without actually "rigging" anything or cancelling the elections.
The Democrats will do it for him.
There will be some Democrats in the primaries who will be vocally anti-ICE, and actually run on things like prosecuting them, but the Democratic Party will ratfuck them in favor of candidates who say "train them better".
I think it doesn't matter either way because dems are complicit
Yeah I can't predict the future BUT I can predict libs will do nothing and lead us further into danger.
Groundhog Day: Schumer and all other bold face names dems tweeting "Somebody should do something."
Elections are held as normal unless an anticapitalist party gets popular enough to have a shot at winning. If the repiblicans win, liberals punch left even harder because we should've voted blue no matter who. If democrats win ice will be "reformed" and will quiet down for a few weeks before going back to what they were doing but with less resistance from the public.
He's gonna try his very best to cancel the midterm and all other elections for the simple reason that he enjoys playing dictator and "triggering the libs", but I think that election stuff is all pretty "set in stone" constitutionally, and election results are something the capitalist class has pretty solid control over without cancelling them and still recognizes as a pressure valve for working class outrage.
Alternatively, if either of those two premises fail (constitutional protections for elections and capitalist control of elections), then cancelling the midterm would be plausible in my view...but then why didn't previous presidents do it?
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.
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.
Yeah pretty much.
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.
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.
but I think that election stuff is all pretty "set in stone" constitutionally
Birthright citizenship is literally stated unequivocally in the constitution.
You're referencing this executive order (Wikipedia), right? (For what follows: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, I am just some Internet dweeb!) I think the order has been struck down as unconstitutional. Not that ICE is gonna respect that, not that the feds are gonna follow the laws that they wrote unless it benefits the capitalists they serve. As I said, Trump will try to cancel midterms like he tried to cancel birthright citizenship, but he won't be able to do it unless it is a matter of survival for the capitalists.
And it is my view that the elections serve capitalists as a class, if not the current ruling faction of capital, since from their perspective, this is a democracy. If, say, PSL had a chance of winning, then elections would get yeeted into the Sun. But since both parties are captured, in particular the Democrats, then the occurrence of elections is safe for the system.
I think the order has been struck down as unconstitutional
Nope. The supreme court (Partisan trump loyalists) are voting on it later this year.
They do neither and the GOP squeaks out a win regardless.
If only they had a big war to rally the voters, sorta like a war in Iraq or something idk...
Literally doesnt matter.
Considering how both parties from top to bottom are all in the same group and vote pretty much the same way, Trump regime really don't need to do anything with respect to midterms.
Prediction: American voter registration in the future will require a background check by ICE to confirm citizenship.
Recently, someone informed him that you don't have to have elections during a war. His response was something like "So if we happen to be at war X months from now, we don't have to do elections? Interesting". So probably that.
I think they'll rig the votes for a 51/49 media spectacle again