John,
Steve Bannon just said the quiet part out loud:
“He’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ’28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that.”
He even claimed there’s a plan to make it happen.
That’s not a joke—it’s the same pattern we’ve seen for nearly a decade.
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Every time Trump tests a new boundary, the press treats it like a spectacle—covering it for clicks, then moving on to the next shiny object. When the story fades, his base absorbs the lie as truth, and everyone else—including the media—tunes out.
So when he called the 2020 election “stolen,” most outlets fact-checked it and moved on. Then January 6th happened.
And when he dismissed Project 2025—the 900-page plan to dismantle the federal government—as something he “knew nothing about,” the media pushed back for a day or two, then they moved on.
Trump then put the plan into action, and according to watchdog groups, Trump is more than half way through.
Now, Trump—backed by Bannon and MAGA —is testing the next step: violating the Constitution by running for a third term.
He’s handing out “Trump 2028” hats, letting allies normalize the idea, and posting AI videos of himself as “president forever.”
He’s pretending it’s all a gag.
But we’ve seen this movie before, and at COURIER, we understand the danger of not taking Trump seriously.
That’s because our mission is to defend democracy and reach the audiences the mainstream press is leaving behind.
But we can’t hold that line without you.
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In solidarity,
The COURIER Team