How We Know Gavin Newsom Is Right About Trump Wanting to Be President Beyond 2028: A Structural Empiricist’s Understanding of Trump Explains All

john raymond
Aug 28
2 min read

Governor Gavin Newsom is correct: President Trump is maneuvering to remain in power beyond the 2028 election. This is not speculation, but the logical outcome of structural dynamics observable in autocratic behavior.

A structural empiricist’s lens, grounded in the Raymond Method, makes this fact inescapable.

Pillar One: Regime Security Is the Prime Directive

Trump’s every move is dictated by self-preservation. Legal peril, financial exposure, and reputational collapse all await him the moment he leaves office. Therefore, staying in power is not optional—it is existential.

The Kremlin, over forty years of cultivation, engineered Trump’s vulnerabilities so that his regime survival now depends on obeying Putin. This is why he acts as a Traitor-General: betrayal of others is simply the price of protecting himself.

Pillar Two: Asymmetric Warfare as the Tool of Extension

Trump does not rely on normal democratic processes. Instead, he uses asymmetric means:

Norm erosion: normalizing talk of “no more elections” if America is at war in 2028.

Institutional capture: Project 2025’s plan to remove checks on executive power.

Delegitimization of elections: propaganda, disinformation, loyalty tests.

Legal brinkmanship: open defiance of judicial precedent, firing independent officials.

These tactics are already underway and serve a single purpose: to extend Trump’s power horizon beyond 2028.

Pillar Three: The Traitor-General

Trump’s betrayals—to NATO, Ukraine, Israel, even his own domestic allies—are not ideological. They are coerced acts of survival. Because Russia engineered his capture, his self-interest is synonymous with Putin’s strategic needs. Thus Pillar Three always collapses back to Pillar One: every betrayal of others is, at bottom, self-preservation.