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Trump Is Building the Machinery to Make Defeat Impossible

Joshua Scheer, SCHEERPOST, October 20, 2026

When Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose presidential term ended in May 2024, informed Trump that elections would not be held in Ukraine because of the war, Trump responded: “So you’re saying during the war you can’t have elections? So let me just say, three and a half years from now … So you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.”

An election can be stolen long before the ballots are counted. This searing address from Chris Hedges warns that the Trump administration is assembling the machinery to discredit unfavorable results, intimidate voters and turn claims of election fraud into a justification for federal intervention. The danger, the speech argues, is a government preparing to make its hold on power permanent.

But the indictment reaches beyond Trump. Decades of corporate domination, bipartisan betrayal of working people and the hollowing out of democratic institutions have prepared the ground for authoritarian rule. If the elections are subverted, the speaker argues, defending democracy will require mass organizing, nationwide strikes and sustained public resistance from people whose own future is at stake.

Full Edited Transcript……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… https://scheerpost.com/2026/10/20/trump-is-building-the-machinery-to-make-defeat-impossible/

October 24, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA