In Reply to: He can't cancel elections because they are run by the States posted by Bruinfan4ever on February 13, 2026 at 15:55:05
faith in laws and assume that the guardrails around the system are still there in some form and power-based impositions can only go so far, and those who see naked expression of power for what it is, something independent of and unbounded by laws or conventions.
In reality, as I see it, he doesn't have to declare elections canceled to get where he wants to get. He can simply create enough chaos and uncertainly about the voting process, including the vote counting (taking over a sufficient subset of polls and moving the ballots out of state through brute force and snbeakery is one way of doing that) to make the results questionable for everyone, and then turning to the existing congress and asking them to decide who gets seated.
There are a few ways he can nullify the election results because he has the imagination to color outside the lines and the determination to do as he wishes. The civilized neither understand the ways of the barbarian, nor have ab answer to their actions. That's why civilizations fall.
The fundamental question that we don't ask enough is "if he decides to do X, despite it being utterly illegal, who's to stop him?"