Canadian here looking over the fence.

Watching the US waiting politely for midterms while norms are being fed into a wood chipper is not a strategy, it’s denial with a calendar.

History is pretty blunt on this point.

Authoritarian regimes do not pause for elections out of courtesy. They entrench, they capture institutions, they rewrite the rules, and then they hold “elections” the way casinos offer free drinks.

If Americans still have legal, civic, economic, and institutional leverage right now, then now is when it gets used.

It means mass pressure, coordinated action, strikes, lawsuits, state resistance, corporate accountability, and relentless visibility.

It means acting like democracy is something you defend in the present tense, not something you RSVP to every four years.

From the outside looking in, the frustration comes from seeing a house on fire and hearing people argue about what color to paint the house next year.

The moment is now.

History does not hand out extensions.