Who is going to stop them from stopping the elections? What do you envision the republicans doing to stop it?
Not a thing, not a thing.
Or they will simply decide who gets to vote and who does not. So there will be an election after all.
Do you think the Russians of 1916 expected what was coming their way? They were no dumber or smarter or less patriotic than us, yet…
The Mensheviks (today’s Democratic Party) supported all of it, thinking they would be the ruling class, then the Bolshevik’s (today’s leftists) upon taking over power, wiped out the Mensheviks.
I think the bigger question is, “what is the benefit of stopping the election?”
Even Sadam Hussien had “elections” as fraudulent as they might have been. A government’s legitimacy comes from the governed, and elections are necessary to establish that.