[jawns]

I predict certain political factions in the US will spend much of 2026 looking for ways to introduce a delay in the 2028 elections, such as pursuing a war so that Congress can postpone elections until they can be held safely. Which has never happened before, but who knows what absurdities will be given the OK these days?

[softwaredoug]

As elections are determined by state and constitutionally mandated, this would be next to impossible.

It’s more likely that legal shenanigans happen like VRA section 2 going away and deepening gerrymandering wars or looking for excuses to disqualify people from voting for “election integrity” and other creative democratic backsliding that would pass muster at SCOTUS.

[prepend]

We had elections during the civil war, 0.000001% chance the 2028 elections get changes.

[taproottap]

That was the civil war, maybe in 2026 the uncivil one begins. (But I think it will just be a more general unravelling.)