It is trivially obvious that the Trump regime does not plan to leave power ever again and is making preparations to interfere with legislative elections later this year to that end.

And many of the responses to this obvious fact have been frustratingly pollyanish. Elections are run by states, you see, so the federal government has no statutory role over them. Trump can’t cancel elections, that would be against the law. There are too many polling stations for ICE to interfere with them all. Repression on Election Day will just galvanize voter turnout against them. And on and on and on.

And I am begging people to actually take this threat seriously, because however true these statements are, *they are insufficient for managing an unprecedented fascist threat that the US political system has been so far unable to contain.*