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Trump still needs some parts of government to function, because in the medium term 2 to 4 years, Trump has to place state run elections - as the founding fathers intended to prevent dictatorship - under Trump dominated federal control. Trump needs to end free and fair elections. In the longer term he needs a taxing-security government that chanells money to his supporters, and which restrains and spies on his opponents. The SAVE act is being fast tracked now, it would impose harsher ID requirements than any state. It would subject state election officials to imprisonment on Trumped [sic] up charges. It would require mandatory voter roll purges (based in reality on inaccurate data). The similar ACE act calls for states to share federal election rolls with federal government, so the effort to produce lists to purge roller votes for absurd reasons can be nationalised. None of this will get past Senate 60 vote cloture requirement, but Trump will claim they are existential to US democracy and enforce them by XOs. Trump then wants to misuse the 1965 VRA act, to instead of ensuring states apply voting rights fairly, to ensure they apply them unfairly. Trump's long obsession with illegal voting will then pay dividends, when he claims corrupting elections is actually making them fair. MAGA extremists would be employed as federal officials to directly terrorize election administrators at every stage of the voting process. = Few people seem to be expecting this. Mainstream politicians in US and Europes are waiting for the American people to vote Trump out, as if Trump will not ensure they do not get this opportunity.

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