President Donald Trump said Wednesday that “we shouldn’t even have an election,” as he complained about the political risks his party faces in the 2026 midterms and boasted about his accomplishments.
Trump made the comment in an interview with Reuters while venting about the long-standing reality that the party of a sitting president often loses seats in midterm elections.
Germany 1933 (Wikipedia): The election saw Nazi stormtroopers unleash a widespread campaign of violence against the Communist Party (KPD), left-wingers, trade unionists, the Social Democratic Party, and the Centre Party. They were the last multi-party elections in a united Germany until the all-German vote in 1990, though by 1933, the democratic process had ceased to be free or fair.
The GOP using ICE has already unleashed a widespread campaign of violence and IMO they’re well on the way to making sure the democratic process no longer exists in 2026.
The main difference, and really only hope at this point, is ICE appear to be pretty indiscriminate in their application of violence. If it was more targeted I’d be more worried, but at this point it seems their managing to piss off a majority of people.
With few exceptions, ICE and the GOP are targeting protesters and brown people. As a rule they aren’t GOP voters.