Well, judicial checks and balances should protect them until regime change, which is coming.

Waterluvian 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I dunno. The Americans stuck their hand in a blender for four years and then four years later needed to try it again. Alas, Stumpy McNubs remains long on limbs but short on memory.

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toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have similar concerns, but the evidence so far is encouraging.

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1puwkpj/democrats...

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qu6vyu/trump_cal...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-scor...

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/01/nx-s1-5695678/democrat-taylor...

	▲	AnthonyMouse an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"The President's party loses seats in the midterms" is a long-term trend and it seems pretty likely to hold this time. The real question is, once the Democrats are back in control of at least one house of Congress, are they going to be sane or are they going to spend two years making such fools of themselves that we end up with another Republican President in 2028?

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tzs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The first time many of Trump's desires to do illegal things were somewhat restrained by non-political government employees who remembered that their oath is to the Constitution, not the President.

Based on what I've read a lot of people who voted for him subsequent times thought that would continue.

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actionfromafar 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't look into laser with remaining eye! (Unless it's really shiny, and red?)

	▲	Waterluvian 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Science demands rigour and repeatability.

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softwaredoug 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's going to be dicey whether you can keep all the suppliers engaged with start / stops over 3 years.

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toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | parent [-]

From the piece:

> Several of these projects are near completion and are likely to be done before any government appeal can be heard.

Just gotta keep grinding towards success.

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int0x29 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This will kill most future investment in offshore wind even if those projects are sucessful.

	▲	toomuchtodo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’ll come back when there is more policy certainty, China isn’t going anywhere and they’re going to keep building. Luckily, there is manufacturing supply chain safely outside the US. China is roughly a third of global manufacturing capacity after all. Don’t think in years, think in half decades and decades. This too shall pass. https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

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behringer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's no regime change coming when those in power run the elections, have already cheated in the past, and know that they are now untouchable.

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rootusrootus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is not too useful to make bold unsupported claims that the current administration has the power to subvert elections. That just lowers us to their level, and the last thing we need is for a further erosion in confidence in our democratic system. The states run elections, and no matter what Trump says to get people to keep paying attention to him, they don't jump when the president tells them to. The feds have money and nukes, but States have a lot of the actual power.

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amanaplanacanal 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

States run the elections.

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prawn 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The US president just today said that Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in future elections.

	▲	rootusrootus 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It certainly gets us to keep talking about him. Which seems to be his primary skill. It does not have any basis in reality, however.
	▲	Dylan16807 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That sounds like a call to get rid of the electoral college...
	▲	estearum an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Well that's nice (i.e. an impeachable, despicable offense), but it doesn't actually change how elections are run.
	▲	SpicyLemonZest an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		He also said his polls are the best they've ever been today. Trump works hard to cultivate an aura of inevitability, but he simply does not have the power to make false things true by declaring them so.