The Third-Term Trial Balloon

One thing Steve Bannon he and Trump have in common is that they love pushing buttons. They live for the chaos, for watching the rest of us scramble to decode whatever madness they just said. It’s not random; it’s strategy. They test, they poke, they plant seeds.

This time, Bannon is floating a trial balloon. He’s trolling us.

He said, “Trump is gonna be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that.” Then he brushed off the Twenty-Second Amendment like it was some optional guideline, saying, “There’s many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ’28.”

That’s a soft launch. A warning disguised as confidence. “We have to finish what we started.” Sounds more like a threat than an affirmation.

And remember, these are the same people who call themselves constitutional conservatives. They don’t actually care about the Constitution; they care about power. What Bannon is doing here is simple: normalize the idea that a third term isn’t unconstitutional, get MAGA followers comfortable saying it out loud, and drown everyone else in confusion and fatigue.

Trump has teased this before. He once said, “Maybe we’ll give it another four or eight or sixteen years.” He told a crowd, “I’m entitled to another term because they spied on my campaign.” He even joked, “President for life, maybe we’ll have to give that a shot.” His crowd cheers every time. He is testing boundaries the same way Bannon does, publicly, proudly, and without consequence.

This is the psychology of authoritarian creep. They do not announce tyranny. They test it. They joke about it. They let people laugh it off until it stops sounding shocking.

Bannon once called himself a Leninist who wanted to “destroy the state.” He bragged about “flooding the zone with shit.” That is the playbook. Overwhelm the system, exhaust the truth-tellers, then rebuild the ruins in their own image.

Now he’s dropped the mask entirely. He said the MAGA movement has to “seize the institutions, seize them and then purge them.” He talks about a new civil war as if it’s inevitable.

Steve Bannon is openly planning treason.

He’s preparing his audience to see violence and institutional takeover as “necessary.” And he’s counting on Democrats and independents being too divided or too polite to call it what it is.

So when Bannon says Trump will be president in 2028, believe him. When Trump says things like, “We’re going to stay in for a long time,” or when he praises Xi Jinping, saying, “He’s now president for life. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday,” take that seriously. They are not just talking. They are checking how far the audience will go with them.

Here’s what’s next: intimidation. Trump’s ICE will not just deport people. They will function like his secret police. You will see it during elections, especially in red states. Voter intimidation, “poll security,” and fake investigations into “fraud.” It is all part of the chaos.

They create the crisis, then claim they are the only ones who can stop it.

So when you start thinking your vote does not matter, remember this: they know it does. That is why they are trying to take it from you.

They do not give a damn about the law, the Constitution, or democracy. They only care about control.

And if we keep treating their words as “just talk,” it will be too late when it stops being talk.

This isn’t going to end well.