This story came out earlier this month, shortly after the controversial Callais decision by the Supreme Court, which basically gave southern red states carte blanche to go ahead and gerrymander and redistrict their states in favor of the Republican party. After that, Donald Trump felt that the upcoming midterm elections should be suspended and new ones formed to reflect the new reality of redistricting which favors Republicans. That, despite Trump and MAGA politicians generally polling incredibly low at the moment nationwide, with no polls showing that Trump is even at or above 40% approval ratings.
As I and plenty of others have warned plenty of times in the past, never before have we had such an anti-democratic White House, Congress, or Supreme Court in place. When people warned the our democracy was extremely fragile and quickly eroding, this is what they were talking about. Now, we are seeing it come to fruition.
Can we even really be regarded as a democracy anymore?
Can we even really fully be regarded as a free nation anymore?
All of this is happening on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which is generally regarded as the single event which gave birth to the modern United States of America. Which is why, frankly, I hardly feel like celebrating, when it seems that everything that our progress up to this point represented - the expansion of individual freedoms and civil liberties, a representative democracy, responsible and fairly elected leadership - is all beginning to fall all around us. Indeed, these are dark days for our American democracy, which is proving to be far more fragile than anyone realized. It will not escape this political era of Trump and MAGA unscathed or stronger for the test. Really, I am not exaggerating by suggesting that it no longer feels like we can fully consider ourselves a democracy, or fully free any longer.
Frankly, the agenda towards building an American dictatorship which Trump and MAGA nation are trying so desperately to establish keeps scoring major victories. So far, it has all been done perfectly legally. That is why, despite all of the screaming headlines revealing how unpopular the Trump presidency is and has been, it hardly feels like it matters that a majority of Americans support or like the Trump White House. The very thing that Trump and his MAGA morons have projected onto others is now becoming reality under them. Truly, the game has been and continued to be rigged in their favor over time.
This is how democracy dies.
And the worst part?
They're not even hiding it anymore.
Frankly, the way that this country is going, it seems like the powers that be who are in complete control have learned the lesson that they do not need to bother hiding it any longer. Not enough people actually pay attention for it to really matter, one way or another. It is clear to me that we Americans have lost our appetite for holding our elected leaders to account for their wrongdoing ever since Watergate. The results have been predictable: we keep getting leaders who seem to test the limits of what they can get away with. This problem has grown worse, until we have reached the point where we now have someone who seems to have a new scandal literally every day. And that, it feels, assures that things will simply be allowed to grow worse and worse for the country, and indeed, for the world.
Somewhere along the line, there has to be a breaking point, right? It is just damn difficult right now to know what that will be, or what happens once we reach it.
Meanwhile, we have to endure headlines and news stories which perfectly illustrate just how much worse things are getting for this country.
Below are the links to the two articles used in writing this particular blog entry:
Trump issues 'demand' that states cancel elections after Supreme Court rigs maps for GOP after Callais by Jacob Knutson May 4, 2026:
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-demand-states-cancel-elections-rig-maps-after-supreme-court-callais/
Trump Floats Cancelling 2026 Elections, Then Insists He Won't by Nik Popli Reporter Jan 6, 2026 :
https://time.com/7343696/trump-floats-cancelling-2026-elections/
Trump Floats Cancelling Election, Then Insists He Won't
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