President Donald Trump has long flirted with dispatching federal forces to polling sites as part of a broader and oftentimes martial emphasis on election security. Now, with the 2026 midterms just months away and Democrats looking increasingly likely to make major (perhaps even chamber-flipping) gains in November, party figures are starting to take Trump’s threats seriously. As blue state attorneys general coordinate with one another and Senate Democrats convene high-level strategy sessions, is the party ready to face the White House’s increasingly brazen electoral saber-rattling?
I’ll believe they have the capacity to fight their way out of a paper fucking bag when I see it, honestly.
I’m so goddamn tired of the two-party system. “Fascism” and “Captive Half-hearted Opposition” isn’t really a meaningful choice.