midterm elections don’t always go that way

And sometimes they do. You don’t know what is going to happen in the next two years that might turn voters off to current officials. You’re not tracking local politics. There are primaries where general election-winning candidates might lose and thus not campaign and win in the general. There are deaths, retirements, scandals, etc. There are also pandemics and economic crashes and inflation.

also most of what you guys are wailing about are powers that sit entirely within the executive, and congress is basically powerless to stop.

This is wishful thinking. The judiciary has already temporarily stopped many of Trump’s machinations. We’ll see how they all play out in court. And yes, many of the courts are also corrupted and partisan, but some battles will go the way of justice.

And in in 2028 it really looks like Vance will win (because he’s slick af and you people have no one credible on deck).

This is more than wishful thinking. I would compare Vance to a traditionally reviled animal, but it would be an insult to any animal species I picked. He has the charm of a truck stop gloryhole filled with dirty needles and black mold. If you think he’ll rally conservatives or beat someone like Newsom in a general election, you’re probably on whatever was in those truck stop gloryhole needles. Trump at least has the thinnest illusion of a dumb person’s idea of a smart businessman.

So no, you have either 4 or 12 more years of this.

When this prediction doesn’t come true, I predict you’ll go back to “it was stolen!”