What do you figure the chances are that President Trump will try to seek a third term as president?

Not the chances that he would win, or serve, or even get on ballots nationwide, but that he will try. How you answer that question about the end of Trump’s second presidency should very much inform how you approach what’s going on in Washington right now.

Our history with Trump certainly suggests that if he is still able to draw breath, we will two years from now at least be discussing whether the 22nd Amendment applies to nonconsecutive terms (it most certainly does) or whether some legal loophole or crisis mitigates its blunt language.

A guy who is simultaneously trying to invalidate his predecessor’s pardons in order to prosecute his own political enemies, end the blanket birthright citizenship written into the post-Civil War 14th Amendment and invoke the same 18th-century law that was the basis for the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II seems unlikely to shrug his shoulders at the two-term limit that’s only been on the books since 1951 and say, “Oh, well.”

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