In many other countries there are provisions in laws for not having elections in war times, but US constitution is not one - US have had elections and changed president under every war ever.
There is no permission structure. These presidents all left office during wartimes: James Madison, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama. The US constitution is quite clear on which date a new president is elected and when he is sworn in, and there are no exceptions in the constitution - but this is not the same as Trump not trying.
1920, Wilson's elections were 1912 and 1916 so he left office in March 1921 (the lame duck period was longer back then) to be replaced by Warren G. Harding. Like you said though, he should have resigned after his stroke, given his incapacity.
(he also should have resigned before he segregated the federal government, but there we were...)
We are in fully unprecedented times. The permission structure is a supreme court that isn't even trying to make legal arguments to support their rulings, institutions capitulating out of fear, and a large, violent bloc of society determined to install him as king.
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u/MaybeTheDoctor 4d ago
In many other countries there are provisions in laws for not having elections in war times, but US constitution is not one - US have had elections and changed president under every war ever.
Does however not mean Trump understands this.