Trump and his allies like Bannon have been telegraphing their intention to undermine the midterms since at least January. People have generally responded to those concerns by pointing out that there are laws, a Constitution even, preventing them from doing this or that. But that’s not how these people think. You’re talking about an administration that is really more akin to a criminal enterprise filled with people who have everything to lose if Democrats regain control this year and beyond. Unprecedented, naked corruption. Trump and his allies aren’t just going to let something like a 30% approval rate or laws stop them from trying to stay in power the way any kleptocratic authoritarian regime would to avoid a popular reckoning. And then you have all these groups like Heritage and Claremont waiting in the wings to provide a laughably thin veneer of intellectualism and legitimacy the efforts to upend our elections because conservative institutions have placed their loyalty in Trump over America. The truth is that right sees itself as the only political force with a legitimate claim to rule, with the only legitimate vision of governance, a law unto themselves, and that opens to the door to a lot of ugly possibilities.