At 7:21 last night, Donald Trump walked onto the stage at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, and began talking about how much he admired Senator Jon Husted’s body. He was there to campaign for Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, but the nearly hour-and-a-half rally became another reminder that there are no limits to what he will say. And what came next showed why we need to worry about what he is willing to do. When the crowd chanted “four more years,” he answered, “I would love to do that. I’ll be honest.” He called for the Senate to terminate the filibuster, then explained what he wanted: “We will never lose an election again because we’ll have really good safeguards. All strict.” This is a president openly talking about changing election laws so he never loses again, while his administration has refused to invite the international election observers who have monitored every federal election since 2002. Russia and Belarus have also shut those observers out. These are the last countries we should be following.
Then a woman wearing a “Release the Epstein Files” shirt was punched, shoved into the bleachers, and grabbed by the hair. Security removed her while the man who attacked her stayed and was not escorted out. Trump watched without condemning the violence, called the protesters “scum,” and mocked the woman’s appearance while the crowd laughed. This is what happens when political violence becomes something to celebrate. Mussolini’s Blackshirts beat opponents in public while police stood by or enabled it. Violence was not incidental to that takeover; it helped teach people to see cruelty as patriotic. Trump spent the rest of the night attacking immigrants and Ilhan Omar, with the crowd chanting for her deportation on the same day federal agents searched her home under a judicial warrant. The things he teases become the things he does next. We have to hear his words as planning, not empty threats.
There were moments before Trump when leaders understood that winning did not require tearing us apart.. He needs us broken and hopeless because a united country does not need a strongman. His support is slipping. His Ohio approval has fallen to 36 percent, and The Washington Post reported mostly empty sections of the arena even as he boasted of a “Big Crowd.” One election will not fix every problem, but it can put a major roadblock in his path. Unchecked power is not a future I will accept for my family or yours. We will live with the consequences of this administration for years, but we are not giving up. When we get tired, we have to remember that our resistance is working, or he would not be fighting so hard to convince us otherwise.
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This video is based on my written post, available HERE, and based on the events of 10-12-2026.
This commentary represents my personal opinions and analysis of matters of public concern, informed by publicly available information. Any references to individuals constitute opinion and commentary protected under the First Amendment.
Sources:
Trump speaks at midterm rally in Youngstown, Ohio: PBS NewsHour Video
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ohio-rally-youngstown-husted-ramaswamy
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-rally-protester-punched
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/politics/donald-trump-ohio-rally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/12/trump-youngstown-ohio-rally
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/25/us-trump-administration-rejects-external-election-observers
https://apnews.com/article/trump-omar-home-search-federal-agents
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-senate-race-pac-socialist-candidate-brown
