Project 2025 partner floats repealing the 22nd Amendment and allowing Trump to serve a third term

[brooklynite]

Source: Media Matters

The American Conservative, a right-wing blog and Project 2025 partner, published an article advocating to repeal the 22nd Amendment so that Donald Trump would be able to serve a third term.

The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits a president to serving two terms. It was adopted after former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to a third and fourth term amid public concerns about a “long-term president.”

An article headlined “Trump 2028” published in The American Conservative advocates for the amendment’s repeal so that Trump could be eligible to serve a third term should he win the 2024 election. The American Conservative is a partner of Project 2025, the conservative movement’s comprehensive transition plan for the next Republican presidency. Project 2025 — organized and led by The Heritage Foundation, a leading right-wing think tank — is a policy and staffing initiative that threatens to weaken democracy, significantly roll back civil rights, and exacerbate climate change, among other issues.

Peter Tonguette, a contributing writer to the Washington Examiner who also regularly writes for The American Conservative, dubiously argues in his piece that the drafters of the 22nd Amendment could not have anticipated a president who would serve nonconsecutive terms, a possibility that he argues is a reflection of Trump’s supposedly unique popularity. (Polls show that the majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of the former president.) He says voters should not be “denied the freedom” to elect him to a third term.


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[All Mixed Up]

1. Would be funny if this backfired and they got an Obama third term.

But there ain't no chance in hell this amendment is repealed.

[Grins]

2. " It was adopted after former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to a third and fourth term..."

Better?

“It was adopted after a DEMOCRAT was elected to a third and fourth term.”

Certainly more accurate.

[DFW]

31. And ironically, the first president affected by the 22nd Amendment was....

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Their very own Eisenhower, who WOULD have won a third term. Although—Eisenhower might have been the ONLY post-22 Republican president who could have. It’s barely conceivable Reagan might have, but even he knew how far his Alzheimer’s was advanced, and probably would have nixed the idea himself. Nixon fled to avoid impeachment and probable removal. Ford was tainted with Nixon’s stench. Bush I couldn’t survive the economy Reagan left him, and Bush Lite only made term two with Kenneth Blackwell and Diebold manipulating Ohio until it produced the numbers they wanted. Like Rep. Peter King said in an inadvertent moment when the cameras were rolling, “We won. It’s all over but the counting, and we’ll take care of the counting.” He should have been taken more seriously at the time, since that is exactly what they did.

[eggplant]

3. If 2/3 of the states ratify such a thing, the country is already past the end times.

[Eugene]

16. The Heritage Foundation has been planning for years to use the constitutional convention route.

That is also part of their Project 2025 action plan.
They want to put the whole constitution on the table
and take out the parts they don't like.

They just made a renewed push in late 2023.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Among other things, the proposal would overturn one-person-one-vote
in Congressional apportionment, repeal federal 16th Amendment taxing
authority and abolish the popular election of senators.

Abolish term limits for their autocrat? Of course.

This would-be authoritarian takeover does not intend to rely
on democratic means.

[FakeNoose]

19. Before this scenario can ever become possible in the US

... Chump is going to croak.

Then what? They're back to square one again.

I prefer the Constitution staying the way it is right now. It should be really, really hard to ever amend it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. Then what????? Donald J. Trump!!!!!!!

Junior. Hey, it worked for North Korea.

[FakeNoose]

30. 👎👎👎 No thanks

[rsdsharp]

27. It takes 2/3rds to propose an amendment; 3/4ths are required to ratify.

[eggplant]

34. my error. an even higher bar!

[Aristus]

4. Repeal the 22nd in one hand, and shit in the other.

See which one fills up first.

[EarlG]

5. WTF

"Peter Tonguette, a contributing writer to the Washington Examiner who also regularly writes for The American Conservative, dubiously argues in his piece that the drafters of the 22nd Amendment could not have anticipated a president who would serve nonconsecutive terms."

The 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951. Prior to that we'd already had a president who served two non-consecutive terms -- Grover Cleveland, from 1885-1889, and from 1893-1897.

I mean sure, this is just more Trump cult virtue signaling, but even still, I say wtf.

[FakeNoose]

20. Anyone who writes for the Examiner AND the American Conservative

... has to be an idiot, or a rank amateur.

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. "supposedly unique popularity" - that would be losing the popular vote twice in a row

I think he's the only one to have done that and yet become president one of those times. Not the kind of "uniqueness" that needs an amendment repealing, though.

[Marthe48]

6. Voters didn't want him for a 2nd term, why on earth do they think he'd get a third?

What planet are they on?

[AZ8theist]

13. Can you imagine how mentally unraveled Doturd would be in a THIRD TERM??

This would be his every day image (minus the drooling...):

[liberalgunwilltravel]

7. A better idea for floating

I have a better idea for floating. Trump's bloated body once hamberders and KFC do their jobs.

[Walleye]

8. I have been expecting this. They're going to say something about consecutive terms, and his first term was marred etc

[Mz Pip]

9. Doesn't surprise me.

I figured they’d go after the 22nd Amendment. The originalists on SCOTUS would vote to repeal it.

[Captain Zero]

36. Scotus doesn't get to vote on amendments added or removed.

fyi

[LiberalFighter]

10. There needs to be a database compiled of these creeps.

[Squaredeal]

11. Doesn't matter. Trump will lose the 2024 election so he can run again in 2028.

That is if he isn't completely bonkers by then or in prison.

[Dulcinea]

21. Or has shuffled off this mortal coil. nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

29. "GAME OVER"

The last question: Trump. fight or flight?

[getagrip_already]

12. There are 2 paths to accomplish this...

One is to repeal it, the other is to nullify it via scotus.

They effectively nullified the 14th amendment section 3. They can find a way to allow him another term.

Maybe they will rule his first term was spoiled. They can find a way.

If he gets back in power it really won't matter. Scotus will be a rubber stamp, as will state and federal courts and legislatures.

[Bayard]

14. LOL!

First, he's not going to win 2024.

Second, he will be a total rutabaga by 2028.

[IcyPeas]

15. Well then... if we are going to start reflecting on what the drafters anticipated....

..... dubiously argues in his piece that the drafters of the 22nd Amendment could not have anticipated ....

I'm sure the drafters of the second amendment didn't predict today's guns...

[NanaCat]

17. It's never occurred to them

That the first 3rd-term POTUS since FDR wouldn't be TSF, but Obama.

[ColinC]

18. ...

TrumpObama

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. I was wondering how long it would take for this idea to surface.

We can expect TFG to claim he is owed a third time because, "My first time was taken up by witch hunts."

[FakeNoose]

37. A million people lost their lives to Covid

Chump was in charge, and he could have done something on his watch to safeguard Americans.
How many are "owed" their lives back because of his incompetence?

Nope I'll never buy the argument that Chump is owed anything.

[SKKY]

23. Obama over there like, "Yo! Michelle! You ready? Imma fuck around and do this!!"

[jmowreader]

24. One sentence will stop this nonsense in its tracks

"I'm Barack Obama, and if you repeal the 22nd Amendment I'm filing to run for president that very day."

[Polybius]

25. I support repealing the 22nd Amendment as well

But obviously not for helping him win a third term.

[viva la]

26. Gag me

With a spoon.
Anyway, he won't even get a second term.

[zanana1]

32. If Trump wins this time, the word "term" will become obsolete.

[Grins]

33. That kind of blows their argument about Biden being too old.

Trump is 78.

If he is elected in 2024 (Quelle horreur!) he will be 82 at the end of his 2nd term, and 86 at the end of his 3rd.

[Marthe48]

38. History proves over and over

that tyranny only goes further and further to usurp individual rights and corrupt power. It ends with people rebelling against the dictator and their loyalists and killing as many as they can. Maybe establishing a new kind of government that respects individual rights and limits power.

How does democracy die? It is like asking where have all the flowers gone.

What kind of governance we want depends on how much personal responsibility we will accept. That depends on our moral compass, confidence we can pilot our own ship, and determination to stay on course. If we surrender our right to make choices best for us, we are surrendering everyone's right to that determination. We must respect others as we set our course. It is possible to do what is best for yourself without harming others or usurping their rights. Tyranny doesn't get that.

Some of the monkey or ape species will have a fight between males for supremacy. If a male bests the current leader of the group, the new male mates with every female and kills any infants fathered by the former leader. There are other changes too, made to insure the new leader maintains his power. Humans are not apes, but I'll tell you, when I see the results of tyranny, I think of what happens when the monkeys or apes have a power struggle.

[Aussie105]

39. Sure.

If you think Trump will get a second term and do much better than his first so he deserves a third term, why not?

Total reality dislocation like this needs some reality check type intervention.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. Project 2025 clearly spells out the plan to make trump president for life

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. 'In office forever': Trump's Project 2025 partner calls for ending presidential term limit

TFG wants to be President for life like Putin

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-term-limits/

Conservatives are advocating to repeal the U.S. Amendment that limits presidential terms, prompting President Joe Biden's campaign to warn an election year victory for former President Donald Trump could allow him to remain "in office forever."

Biden-Harris HQ shared on X Friday an article from the American Conservative, a blog partnered with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 policy initiative that calls for, among other actions, filling civil service jobs with Trump loyalists.

"If a man who once was president returns ... to deny him the right to run for a second consecutive term cuts against basic fair play," the argument states. "Don't let questions of Trump's age in four years fool you. Trump in 2028!"

American Conservative's argument targets the 22nd Amendment, which limits a president to two terms in the White House and was adopted in 1951 after former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to a historic four terms.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. Partner of Trump's Project 2025 calls for abolishing the 22nd Amendment, allowing Trump to be in office forever

Link to tweet