On Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump showed the world who he is: someone willing to undermine, interfere with and ultimately attempt to overthrow any election result that doesn’t go his way. And he’s been showing us that, again and again, ever since.
Trump’s escalating power-grabs will continue until a Congress is seated that’s willing to rein him in. This year’s midterm voters can make that happen, but only if they start — now — organizing, mobilizing and educating friends and fence-sitters about just how dangerous to democracy this president truly is.
The latest demonstration of that danger has come in Trump’s recent remarks about “nationalizing” America’s elections.
“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over,'” Trump said in a podcast released last week. “We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”
It’s unlikely Trump will or can follow through. Like his 2022 call for “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” in support of his phony election-fraud claims, this one would run headlong into the plain language of that document, which puts the states in charge of the ballot.