To me it seems as if the plan is to make it worse for the average person, up till a point that it is almost unbearable. Then spin the narrative blaming the other countries for the situation. Get the base riled up (history has shown that that is quite easy to do). Declare martial law and “expand” American territory.

-> No elections during war time?

Ah, just thinking out loud here. Probably overreacting…

He will be pardoned before it all starts.

I was going to say to have your cake and eat it, but with the price of eggs over there I’m not really sure they could.

for example: https://lemmy.world/comment/14231344. That was almost a month ago now.