Re: [OT] Trump's third term

On 2025-03-31 12:01 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:49:20 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:

On 2025-03-30 10:05 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

 

I see that Trump has mused about running for a third term. This CBC
article explains why that couldn't happen and suggests that this puts an
end to the discussion.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-third-term-president-constitutional-1.7497480

 

For some strange reason - ignorance, I expect - they complete ignore a
perfectly legal way to get Trump a third term: amend the 22nd amendment
to increase the number of terms or repeal that amendment altogether.

 

If I remember correctly, he'd need to get the approval of 3/4 of the
states and 2/3 of both chambers of Congress to agree and they'd only
have a set number of years to do it but if Trump really is as popular as
he thinks he is, that should be quite possible.

 

The set number of years was a characteristic of specific amendments
proposed in Congress but not others. It's not clear if that's
constitutional.

 

Fair enough. I was remembering the ERA which *almost* passed but fell
slightly short. As I recall, they gave it an extra few years but it
still fell short.

 

Good luck to Trump on his quest to become dictator.

 

Was FDR a dictator when he ran for his third and fourth terms?

 

No, because it was permissible for FDR to run for those terms.

 By the low bar of it wasn't unconstitutional, then you don't believe
Viktor Orban is a dictator. Right?
 

. . .

My perception is that elections in Hungary are not yet believed to be corrupt so that a sufficiently popular candidate *could* still defeat him at the polls. If that is true, then I wouldn't call Orban a dictator.
I would have said the same about Erdogan until the last week or so but he seems to have borrowed a page from the Dictator's Handbook by locking up his chief credible rival. Mind you, I haven't seen anything stating the charges against the rival so it's possible that there is some substance to them although many hundreds of thousands of Turks seem to have their doubts.
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Rhino