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Indeed, as Gary Kasparov eluded to

"These are not the acts of people who expect to lose power any time soon, or ever."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/pu...

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Not sure why you took a downvote. I think it is plain to see that we are unlikely to have free and fair elections in 2028, possibly even the next cycle.

That's exactly the attitude a number of right-wing people had after Trump's 2020 election loss.

The thing is, are these situations really comparable?

Biden has just transferred power peacefully and gracefully, his supporters didn't initiate any coups.

And after Trump's 2020 loss, Biden basically enacted a bunch of sensible policies, including continuing some reasonable Trump policies (some specific tariffs, for example). Trump in 2025 instead decided to ban paper straws (!!!!).

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