My country

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1. I would be incredibly surprised if the 2026 midterms are cancelled.

Authoritarian Strong Leaders love elections. How could they not, knowing that they will win?
North Korea, El Salvador, and Russia all have elections. And there are more than a few countries which have voted their democracy away by voting in an authoritarian Strong Leader.

As to whether the election will be "fair" we can already see that the Republican party is working overtime to ensure that there will not be "fair" elections. Gerrymandering to a level not seen before, disenfranchisement, even, perhaps, armed soldiers at the polls all look to be on the table.

And as for the corporations, well a big part of that is our fault. Right after Trump's failed coup attempt a number of corporations said that they would not financially support any candidates who had engaged in the coup or refused to accept the results of the election. But there was absolute silence from consumers (formerly called citizens) in support of these corporations. So gradually the corporations dropped their pledges. Certainly many corporations were, and are, supportive of Trump, and there are some corporations which (who, lol) are definitely against Trump.
I'm no great supporter of our brothers the corporations (thanks supremacist court) but the electorate of this country gets off too easily and in order to fix our ignorance and apathy we must first admit it.