As Donald Trump spoke beside his Mar-a-Lago pool at the recent Border911 event — which he might get in trouble for — he said something particularly disturbing.

He actually said, out loud, that the 2024 election could just be over, with him announced as the winner.

Here’s how it went down:

“We’re going to bring our country back. We’re going to get out there. We’re going to vote. We’re going to watch the cheating very carefully. We have great, great experts. They took advantage of COVID last time. We’re not going to let that happen.”

He said he already had, in pocket, “so many more votes” than President Biden in the upcoming contest that “they could cancel that election” and just call him the president again.

That’s terrifying. Nobody but Trumpers wants a dictator, but they think so, and they have been cheating: Undermining people’s faith in elections, restricting voting rights, and storming the Capitol when they didn’t get what they wanted.

“Because, I’ll tell you what, if it’s just by the vote, they could cancel that election. We win that election right now. We have so many more votes than they do, but we have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful.”

The man Does. Not. Stop. when it comes to not just lying about what HAS happened, but also what he promises WILL happen.

You can’t end elections beforehand. Even a Trump-friendly Supreme Court would rule that unconstitutional.

But this is what we’re looking forward to, if you don’t get out and vote against him. This is exactly what Republicans would like. To just end elections, and return to the monarchy, not of England, but of America.

The truth of the matter is, if we simply ended the electoral college, an archaic, non-democratic (small d) institution that makes one lady’s vote in Wyoming matter as much as someone who lived by the World Trade Center’s, or even more in fact, there would never be another Republican president for the rest of our days.

And that’s what makes Republicans nervous. We actually could end the electoral college. So I guess they have to try to end elections altogether first.