The Call To "Nationalize" Elections Highlights How Americans Cannot Simply "Vote Their Way Out" Of An Abusive System, And Reminds Us That "Might Makes Right" Is Becoming the New True Doctrine

Everything that the United States of America does abroad will eventually make it home. Every foreign policy is just a domestic policy being tested in another country. 

Just for the sake of context, we have BreakThrough News (via Brian Becker and Professor Richard Wolff) and Due Dissidence discussing President Trump's idea that Republicans should essentially be controlling the election process for the 2026 midterms:

There are already ways in place to make sure that actual citizens vote. And just to address the hypocrisy of the group advocating bringing a suitcase full of documents with you to vote in a two-party system: these same people, whenever there is a school shooting are so quick to dismiss calls for gun legislation by saying, "just enforce the laws on the books." Why, oh why, can't we use that same logic for voter registration?

Anyway, I have to stress that this ploy reinforces the theory that the those in power will not allow the system they've benefitted from to be used to undermine them if they can help it. In other words: if you try to "vote" you way out of the world Trump and MAGA have created, they will simply make it so  you can't. 

Can they do this? I would say that it's just as plausible as: tariffing half the planet, kidnapping the president of Venezuela, attacking Iran after making them think you wanted to negotiate, threatening Denmark and NATO over wanting to take over Greenland or giving taxpayer money to Argentina after their leader virtually bankrupted it.  

The Trump Administration's foreign policy has devolved into "might makes right." And now Americans see that this policy was not limited to how the United States treats its enemies and/or allies. Much like how ICE has been operating over the last several months, The Trump White House will suppress voter turnout for the 2026 midterms as long as they are allowed to do so.  

What's stopping the Trump White House from declaring the voting areas in Democratic Party-dominated states are full of illegal immigrants trying to undermine democracy, resulting in an ICE intervention? I can only say that the answer will not come from elected officials. Democrats spent three presidential election cycles warning voters about how fascistic a Trump White House would be, then proceeded to treat both administrations as if they were slightly more uncouth versions of the George W. Bush Administration. 

I guess if I had any advice for voters, it would be this: strike. Strike when you can, as long as you can, as often as you can. If you can't strike, help out those who are striking. Work with others (unions or not) to strike in larger numbers. The elected officials have either been bought off or silenced. Striking will send a message to their donors...the group we should have been targeting all along.