When I saw the headline “Trump 2028” in American Conservative magazine, I thought it must be an April Fool’s joke. It was written by Peter Tonguette, surely a made-up, tongue-in-cheek name. In fact, the author is real and his admiration for Donald Trump knows no bounds. Although he told me his article was meant to be “provocative, cheeky and punchy”, we were not simply being trolled.
Tonguette argued that “if a man who was once president returns, after a series of years, to stand again for the office and proves so popular as to earn a second non-consecutive term — as Trump seems bound to do — to deny him the right to run for a second consecutive term cuts against basic fair play.
