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America’s New King: Premier Trump’s Plan for the 2026 Elections
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By Bill McEwen, News Director
Published 46 minutes ago on
September 18, 2025

Opinion: With President Trump controlling a subservient Department of Justice and U.S. military, and the U.S. Supreme Court backing him nearly every step of the way, he is about to become America's ruler for life. (GV Wire Composite/Paul Marshall)

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America is in total denial about what’s ahead in the 2026 congressional midterms.

If there is even an election, the final tally will show Republicans taking virtually every seat.

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Bill McEwen
Opinion

How could this happen?

President Donald Trump already has shown his hand.

He controls the military. Any general bold enough to defy him is fired instantly, Moscow-style.

He controls the Department of Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security, ATF, ICE, and most of America’s police chiefs.

He is a Tech Bro Brother with the billionaires curating the social media feeds of conservatives and progressives alike.

The television networks cower to his threats and decrees like hungry dogs begging for scraps, all the while hoping not to get kicked.

Finally, Trump shreds the U.S. Constitution at will with nary a peep from the conservative jackals on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Understand: Dissent is no longer tolerated by Trump in American government, business, or society.

Free speech is dead. And government agents now can detain you for months on end without an arrest warrant.

Trump is Already King

In short, while millions of Americans marched in the streets shouting “Trump is not my king,” he became king.

His victory at the 2024 ballot box and Silent Majority indifference to the fragility of the Great American Experiment in participatory democracy greased the coup.

The left wing of the Democratic Party contributed, too. They did so by confusing the United States for Scandinavia and practicing Cancel Culture with a vengeance so extreme that right-wing Republicans couldn’t wait to wield this blunt instrument someday, too.

Democrats also elevated Trump by becoming a party that catered to narrow interests — not the economic and emotional needs of most Americans.

Instead, they turned their party over to the Sociology Departments at elite universities, none of which speak a language recognized by 90% of voters. Not even most Democrats.

How Trump Will Control the 2026 Midterms

Some will say I’ve lost my mind.

Maybe so, but the scenario I’ve described of Trump ruling for as long as he wants is more likely to happen than not.

And you need to know that Trump’s quest to gerrymander more GOP seats in Red States is simply a distraction.

Trump’s hole cards are “emergency powers” and his unfettered ability to send trained military wherever he wants.

Ahead of the midterms, he will declare “crime emergencies” in most large Democratic cities and send thousands of troops to patrol the streets.

In those same cities, he will cite “election integrity concerns” and have DOJ agents seize every mail-in ballot before it is counted.

All the while, ICE agents will conduct massive immigration sweeps. In Trump’s America, these masked armed agents don’t need an arrest warrant to handcuff someone and send them to a detention center.

Do you think any U.S. citizen of color would risk going to the polls with ICE on every corner? Not if you love your family and want to keep working to support them.

Meanwhile, in the Red States, it will be business as usual. Trump will declare their elections beautiful and not needing DOJ protection. The Democrats might retain stray seats here and there, so Trump can offer evidence the election wasn’t rigged.

Who’s Going to Stop Him?

As long as Trump controls the military and the DOJ toes his line, he can’t be stopped.

Should the Supreme Court majority grow a spine and try to protect free speech, our eroding civil rights, and the Constitutional separation of powers, the rebel justices will be cuffed and arrested.

There will be a Pam Bondi news conference in which she announces charges against each. Expect sudden revelations of alleged bribes, illegal financial transactions, and suspected un-American activities.

With the Supreme Court in chaos, Trump will announce he’s using “emergency” executive power to appoint a replacement justice for each charged with a crime.

This isn’t fantasy.

It’s already happened or is being set in motion.

Get ready for Premier Trump’s first two announcements the day after the midterms. He’s moving the White House to Mar-a-Lago and, now that America has spoken, there will be no 2028 elections.

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Bill McEwen,
News Director
Bill McEwen is news director and columnist for GV Wire. He joined GV Wire in August 2017 after 37 years at The Fresno Bee. With The Bee, he served as Opinion Editor, City Hall reporter, Metro columnist, sports columnist and sports editor through the years. His work has been frequently honored by the California Newspapers Publishers Association, including authoring first-place editorials in 2015 and 2016. Bill and his wife, Karen, are proud parents of two adult sons, and they have two grandsons. You can contact Bill at 559-492-4031 or at bmcewen@gvwire.com

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