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And these guys have been in power for only a few months, they're still finding out about their new tools. What will happen in the next 4 years? will they even leave power peacefully?

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Trump has already been president and already demonstrated to us that he will not leave power peacefully. He's openly discussing serving a third term. I think it's highly unlikely that the transfer of power will happen peacefully unless

1) he dies in office (of natural causes)

2) the republicans win in 2028 and a different republican president is sworn in.

There are more options than this.

Conservatives or Trump will not give power back peacefully. The most likely is that they will prevent fair elections, but they also may simply refuse to give out power. They are attacking justice now and placed loyalist in power agencies.

They cant afford giving away power now. Just in the last three months, there were multiple very clear law breaking acts. Musk is giving government contracts to himself. They do not worry about these, because they do not intend to give out power.

If you can think of more options that lead to a peaceful transfer of power, I'd love to hear them

The real test will be the midterms.

is it though? the senate has been ~50-50 for a decade straight and every 2 years this same algorithm fueled coping mechanism resurfaces for some partisan recovery (newsflash - the other side believes the same thing, no matter which side you're reading this from), and there is zero - and diminishing - data to lean upon for anything different to happen except every demographic in this country drifting right for a 53 seat majority.

no party is going to pass the filibuster, so it doesn't even matter what happens in the house, we're still going to be getting budget reconciliations, and post offices renamed as the only things passed.

partisan areas aren't going to flip. the only 'solution' anyone will come up with is another runner-up from the same party.

Ehhh, I meant there's a non zero chance you guys aren't getting free elections, with plausible deniability of course. He tried before, maybe Trump achieves it this time.

I had a read of the upcoming seat changes in the midterms. Most of them look likely to remain the same colour, with only a handful flippable. And even then there are a few previously flipped to Dem that might revert. Could easily have even more red Senate or Congress in two years

This is "just" a state senate race, but it swung pretty hard to the Democrats.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/james-malone...

Btw I specified natural causes because if he dies in any unusual way I'm sure his lackeys will try to use it to cling to power.

Hell even if he just chokes on a pretzel I'm sure they'll blame the radical left

That's a good question, for a lot of them, and especially Musk.

What's his endgame now ? If Trump is no longer in power, even if Musk doens't land directly in prison, I have a hard time imagining the new government collaborating in any way with him or his companies. And they sure behave like this is not an issue.

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