#2028 elections

[mysteriousrose22]

Don't forget to hold the Trump administration accountable for negative events occurring during their time in power. Do not let them blame it on Biden, as we all know they will try to do. The next four years will be a result of Trump's actions, not those of his predecessors.

Mark my words; there will be a mess to clean up in 2028. We have to work hard.

[aa-predictions]

National Policy/Legislature predictions

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They’ll try to ban ao3

Cut funding for the Veterans Department

Unemployment benefits will become super restricted

Regulations for firing start becoming more lax

Heavy censorship in media

The divorce process will be made harder

"no-fault divorce" controversial

New stipulations on child support

At least one process will be restricted to male approval

Bonus points if it’s healthcare-related

California will try to become independent

Sex ed will be banned in at least 2 states

states in the running r Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee

Supreme Court overrules enforcement of the Establishment Clause in schools

now established religion can be pushed in public schools

Trump will have the Supreme Court rule to get rid of restrictions on election campaign money

Trump will pass some kind of law that will give politicians immunity against prison and lawsuits

Police officers will be granted more immunity, and bonus points if they don’t need body cams anymore

Side note: It's actually funny how a few of these predictions came true, for context, this was written on January 21st (all of our predictions were lololol).

We were thinking of making bingo cards, might make that soon. ^-^

[dynamicity-keysmash]

The Democratic party needs to stop using female candidates for human sacrifice.

That may be hyperbolic, but it is true that both female candidates for president were put forth in years with strong headwinds and rough political environments for the democratic party.

Hillary Clinton ran after two consecutive Democratic terms that left voters feeling uneasy about the nation's economic recovery. I don't think it's widely understood how difficult it is to win a third consecutive term for a political party. I think that if a more mainstream Tea Party Republican had been nominated instead of Trump, as was expected, Republicans would've even had a shot at the popular vote. After all, Republicans did win the congressional House popular vote in 2016. When factoring in a strong electoral college bias on top of the general national mood, it was never going to be an easy year for Democrats.

I do acknowledge that if Clinton had run a scrappier campaign with a central narrative more focused on working-class perspectives, she could've won. She was certainly a very flawed candidate, but my point is that 2016 was not a fundamentally easy political environment for Democrats in the first place.

Harris, on the other hand, was quite plainly fed into a wood chipper. It's finally a woman's turn again, just in time for her to enjoy a political environment in which 75% of the country thinks we're on the wrong track, the party's incumbent president has horrible approval ratings, and she has 3 months to catch up to an opposing presidential campaign that has effectively been weaving its narrative for 9 years. 2024 was an awful political environment for Democrats.

Given that the Democratic party has never nominated a female candidate in an election with a favorable political environment, It is an absolute tragedy that many are coming to the conclusion that Democrats categorically shouldn't run a woman in 2028, which is likely to be a highly viable election for the party. A woman definitely could've won in 2008. A woman likely could've won in 2020 as well. We cannot allow the Democratic party to continue to save fundamentally advantageous elections for male candidates and only give women a shot when the party's standing is shaky at best.

[critical-skeptic]

Does Democracy Have a Chance Or Is This America's Epilogue?

The fact that Democratic leaders are still clashing over who gets to run where, while the entire system teeters, should tell you everything you need to know: they’re too distracted to prioritize survival. We are watching a slow-motion collapse, and they’re backstage arguing about who deserves top billing in a dying show. The world isn’t just metaphorically burning; it’s openly smoldering on every front—authoritarian power grabs, oligarchic entrenchment, and populist fanatics are tearing down our civic infrastructure. Instead of shoring up defenses, Democrats obsess over which identity group to appease next, as though chanting different verses of “Kumbaya” at each other will somehow hold back the tide.

This is what passes for strategy: endless purity tests, virtue signals, and factional infighting. Ironically, the only consensus they seem to reach is on the need to prove how morally superior they are, as if righteousness alone can stop an actual coup. Meanwhile, those who prefer the world in ashes—authoritarians, demagogues, and billionaires whose wealth has quadrupled—are more than happy to watch the left’s self-immolation. Every progressive ritual that excludes potential allies or demonizes pragmatic solutions only strengthens those who thrive on chaos. Look hard at this pattern: the paralysis, the obsession with optics, the refusal to excise the extremists on the left’s own fringes. It’s a gift to the right’s war machine.

Let’s be blunt: this insistence on ideological purity is killing any real chance at countering the onslaught. The movement has become so terrified of offending its own fringe elements that it stifles legitimate criticism, lets crucial battles go unfought, and alienates both moderates and the millions trapped between two dysfunctional extremes. What’s the result? Resentment from centrists, disillusionment among would-be allies, and a public image of a party too busy with ego contests to mount an effective defense against the very real threat of authoritarian rule. Instead of building a broad, disciplined coalition, Democrats play theater, as if moral posturing alone can halt the steady erosion of democracy.

This isn’t a plea for centrism, nor a capitulation to the status quo. It’s a demand for backbone and disciplined action. Ideals mean nothing if we can’t secure the structural integrity of the system long enough to implement them. There is no point in preaching progressive values while extremists and oligarchs set about dismantling the very framework needed to enact those values. Without a stable foundation, justice is impossible; without a functional government, ideals remain slogans on placards, easily swept away when stronger forces kick down the door.

If the left wants to outmaneuver the extremism consuming our institutions, it must learn to prioritize. It must stop pretending that endless internal rituals of moral one-upmanship lead anywhere but ruin. Dumping the dead weight of performative purity and facing the hard truth—yes, that means telling some factions “no”—is the only way to stand firm. Embrace strategic pragmatism. Form alliances that, while imperfect, get the job done. Focus on immediate existential threats rather than fighting over who’s the purest progressive in the room.

The stakes could not be higher. Our institutions are under siege by forces that thrive on division, and every minute spent in self-indulgent squabbling grants them another inch. Morality without strategy is self-sabotage. If Democrats—and anyone who values an open, stable society—want to survive this era, they need to step off their soapboxes, kick out the elements that corrode cohesion, and line up behind a ruthless pragmatism that prioritizes lasting stability.

Stop performing and start governing. The time for elegant speeches and tribal ceremonies ended long ago. If the left can’t bring itself to mature beyond these theatrics, then it’s simply inviting the collapse that its enemies are counting on. The world needs action, not another round of self-righteous pageantry. It needs leaders who can confront threats head-on, who understand that protecting a future worth having requires getting their hands dirty now. It needs a movement ready to fight fires, not argue over who holds the hose.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Andrew Mangan at Daily Kos:

In this year’s Senate elections, Democrats won over 2 million more votes than Republicans but still lost their majority. So much for democracy.  The Senate is famously biased toward the GOP, and with less ticket-splitting these days, that leaves Democrats with quite the hole to climb out of. But there is a ladder back to the majority, even if it’s a tall one. Democrats have performed well in the past two midterm elections, riding a blue wave to a net gain of 40 House seats in 2018 and flipping one Senate seat in 2022, a midterm they were expected to lose decisively. In 2018, Democrats lost four Senate seats while gaining two, but all the losses were in red states, like North Dakota (!) and Indiana (!!). In 2024, though, they saw their 51-seat majority slashed to 47 as the GOP claimed the chamber. But the 2026 midterms alone almost certainly won’t put them back in the Senate majority. There are only two good shots at pickups that year: Maine and North Carolina. 

[...] Nevertheless, holding all their seats and flipping four across these two elections would put Democrats back into the majority. But flip the White House in 2028 and they need only three.

The Democrats lost 4 seats this election (and frankly lucky to not lose any more) to put them down to 47 seats (including 2 Dem-caucusing I’s), and the effort to win back the Senate will likely be a two-cycle effort.

[urprettyfaceisgoingtohell]

it's going to be a hard four years for everyone. especially women, poc, lgbtq+, and immigrants. plz take care of yourselves and take everything one day at a time. take breaks from the news and social media. call your friends and family, do an activity you enjoy, take a nap, eat some good food, lay in your bed, do whatever you can to destress. also remember states' rights and yours. read up on them. another reminder, law enforcement is not your friend. don't say shit to them. you know nothing. don't open doors for anybody or anything you're not expecting. if you really wanna know your friends/family's location, i recommend life360 (compatible with apple/android) or requesting to know their location (apple). we're stronger than we think guys. we survived 2016, we'll survive 2024 onward. oh! another thing! WE hold the power we, the people hold the power! they can't do shit without us! stay safe everyone <3

[jamesadomian]

There will not be “free and fair” US elections in 2026 or 2028, but the Assholes are not omnipotent or popular - they only won with 30% of the population, which is their support ceiling across the decade.

The Democrats should aim for platforms and campaigns that inspire 200 million people to come out and vote against illegal shadow president Elon Musk in the next 2-12 years, so it’s beyond the range he and Hindenburg can steal.

This “landslide revolution” strategy would be very similar to the supermajority left-populist positions Bernie Sanders ran on, via younger charismatic candidates - simply now allowed in the general elections so that all those who agree can vote, and updated to address the new technofascist outrages.

Crucially, this path would not repeat the arrogant and ignorant Cheney-chasing, where they obsessively tried to sway whatever few “centrist” swing voters there are in the country. It is rather aimed to bring out unprecedented numbers of previously disillusioned nonvoters, on a broad emergency basis.

A needle that can be very easily threaded: loudly run on hyperpopular issues at a trumpeting volume, and run on less popular goodguy issues at a lower volume: aka “reverse dog whistle.” If something is righteous but unpopular, promise it quietly or handle it with rhetorical panache. Win and do good.

Be theatrical and brazen like pro wrestlers, since that’s what this has become (if we are very lucky). Call Elon Musk an ugly wimp on television. Call Donald Trump porky and unsmart. It’s okay to be 10% “incorrect” and bodyshame fascists with the stakes this high - Daffy Duck did it, so can we.

Deliciously, if you free yourself from the Year 2000 traumatized mindset - “we have to win a very close low turnout race with an unimpressive candidate!” - the election races will trend more towards landslides in the right direction.

If we’re aiming to get 200 million people out voting against The Beast, the Democrats should permanently retire these as failed strategies: voteshaming, fenced off debates, and fixed primaries. Do a three or four way general election debate: you will look magnanimous and win far more than you lose.

None of this is impossible but I am well aware also that none of it will happen. Every wealthy and therefore powerful person seems to believe either they can still win a narrow “centrist” election, or that it’s all just doomed. But I had to get it out there to be ignored like everything else I do. 🤪

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[sponsored-deactivated20210106]

'Don't use that idiotic NPR jargon': Carville talks lessons learned for Democrats

[jeremiah225]

I'm Definitely hyped for This

[hraeiou]

Live footage of me manifesting that the 2028 election is Nikki Haley vs. Michelle Obama

Not saying I’d vote for Haley, but if we had to have a red president I’d rather have her than jd Vance

Michelle Obama is Michelle Obama

[aa-predictions]

Dear everyone,

Donald Trump just imposed tariffs. I repeat, he actually imposed them on Canada, Mexico, and China. He set a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico with the exception of a 10% tax on oil from Canada because we're reliant on it, and a 10% tax for China.

This is not funny. Canada has explicitly promised retaliation in the form of their own tariffs and cutting off electricity supplies to the US.

Anyone who has basic history knowledge knows that tariffs have almost never worked out in history, and when they have it has been in countries with significantly different situations than ours. The US already has diverse industries and a good economy and firm trade established with other countries. This will ruin that.

Trump will not stop here. He's stated that when March comes, he plans to implement tariffs on the EU too. This would mean tariffs are on all major US trade partners in a month.

This will NOT stop trading. It will not lead to the US becoming more self-reliant. We have far too many people and diverse needs to meet them all independently. Trades will keep happening, just at a higher price. Just slower.

This will drive up prices for everyday goods. This will make things more unaffordable. This will achieve no economic goal except to hurt those who are poor and already in the trenches.

Do you know who receives these tariffs, dear citizens? The government. These taxes go straight from your wallet into the government's pocket. Into Trump's bank account, given he's been shown to take government property before.

Trump's right! These tariffs will benefit him. Just him and him alone.

[readandwriteclub]

Where's that clip at of Trump promising, "you won't have to vote anymore" or something??

[marvelsgirl616]

kermit & miss piggy > 🤢 them 🤢

Go vote!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kyle Mantyla at Right Wing Watch:

During a recent livestream, Fuentes was practically giddy with excitement over the idea that Harris presidency will generate so much hatred among white voters that they'll elect an American Hitler in 2028. "It would probably be better for us because four years of Kamala would absolutely radicalize the masses," Fuentes said with delight. "If she wins, it'll be by a hair. Nobody will think it's legitimate. Everyone will think Trump got cheated." [...] "If we get four years of Kamala, in 2028 you're gonna get an American fascist," Fuentes celebrated.  "Eight years of Obama gave us Trump," he added. "If we had four years of her with a recession, with two wars at once and a defeat with Russia, man, someone will emerge. It's going to be unbelievable. Alex Jones will be the president. After four years of all that, David Duke is going to be president."

Far-right fascist Nick Fuentes hopes that a Kamala Harris win in 2024 springs up a Fascist takeover in 2028.

[authenticallyaudrey]

If this becomes a reality, I would not be surprised. I would feel heartbroken and also happy for them, but I would not be surprised one bit.

Here's to hoping more states going independent IF this passes or for them to turn into Canada's providences. 🥂