President Donald Trump has repeatedly teased that he may blow off the two-term limit for presidents that was officially added to the Constitution through the 22nd amendment in 1951.
Trump has autocratic tendencies and it’s not surprising that he fantasizes about being president-for-life. A second Trump term would deal a debilitating blow to our democracy, and any subsequent terms would transform our democracy into a dictatorship.
Fortunately, for the sake of our republic and our collective mental health there’s almost no chance that the grotesquely obese septuagenarian would live through a third term.
Demographics also argue against a second or third Trump term, people of color who are adamantly opposed to his racist policies are a growing part of the population and conservative Republicans are a dying breed. The future is Democratic blue, Republicans see the writing on the wall, and that’s why they are seeing red.
However, there’s a good chance that Trump may win reelection this November and it’s incumbent upon decent and patriotic Americans to vote in such large numbers that Trump and Trumpism are defeated once and for all.