I am an erstwhile Donald Trump supporter, but as an Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF, US Army) veteran, taxpayer, and single dad of three children under 16, I am a solid Donald Trump supporter in 2024. But where has the talk of congressional term limits gone? Both Barack Obama and Donald Trump supported them as candidates, with Trump saying in October of 2016, “If I’m elected president I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.”

But, like Obama, once in office he had a few behind closed doors talks with the likes of Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Chuck Grassley, and perhaps decided it was in his own political interest to let that sleeping dog lie, and how did that work out? Where was the establishment for President Trump when he needed them? And where is that self interest now?

Congress has roughly a 12% popularity rating while congressional term limits regularly poll at between 70 and 80% across all demographics. Wouldn’t now – finding himself in a statistical dead heat with an empty vessel candidate sailing on a sea of dogmatic, pack-animal, low-information voters – be a good time for Trump to come out and make congressional term limits a central and credible plank of his campaign platform? That would probably put him over the top and end our national malaise for another 40 years until the next Carter comes along.

Nick McNulty

Windham