“As the primary season has shown us, the Republicans have not moved on from Trump—yet the Twenty-second Amendment works to constrain their enthusiasm by prohibiting them from rewarding Trump with re-election four years from now. This is plainly unfair. Indeed, there has long been support for axing the Twenty-second Amendment due to the artificial limits it places on voter choice. Many popular presidents have agreed. In 1985, the Washington Post reported that Ronald Reagan supported repealing the amendment, saying in private remarks that the lame-duck label being applied to his second term left him feeling ‘handicapped.’ In 2016, Barack Obama told David Axelrod that he was sure he would have coasted to a third term if such a thing were permissible: ‘I am confident in this vision, because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could have mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it.'”
“The case of Donald Trump, however, makes an even more forceful ethical argument against the Twenty-second Amendment and for its repeal: If a man who once was president returns, after a series of years, to stand again for the office and proves so popular as to earn a second nonconsecutive term – as Trump seems bound to do—to deny him the right to run for a second consecutive term cuts against basic fair play. If, by 2028, voters feel Trump has done a poor job, they can pick another candidate; but if they feel he has delivered on his promises, why should they be denied the freedom to choose him once more?” writes right wing “intellectutal” douchebag Peter Tounguette in the American Conservative, a guy who – surprise! – Media Matters reports is a “partner” in the ultra-fascist “Project2025” agenda to destroy American democracy.
It’s far more realistic that Trump would simply ignore the 22nd Amendment and dare the scant remnants of the systems dedicated to the rule of law to stop him from running again. Actually probably more realistic than that is for Trump to cancel the 2028 election and rule for life.