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He's not going to stop at 4
then you can start a fucking civil war over it, it's literally the law, federally, and in most states.
What do you mean when you say states? The states themselves have a law that says how many years a president may be president?
so, US presidential elections are weird, because the states have a significant deal of authority when it comes to running the presidential election, this is why the things like the amendment 14 thing happened prior to the election. States have a CONSIDERABLE amount of authority over these to a point where any sort of conjoined fraud would be incredibly difficult.
If we get to a point where the fed goes "fuck it three term presidents" and the states go "uh, nuh uh" you can basically tank an entire election by simply not putting that candidate on the ballot, the question is whether or not this holds up in the supreme court, the answer, should be yes, because that's what the constitution says, and you can bet your ass it won't be amended anytime soon. So there would either have to be MASSIVE levels of collusion in the federal government (to the point that a civil war is likely to start) or it would be like two states that don't put the candidate on the ballot.
It's a very surefire way to cause problems in an election, and it gets messy very very quickly, so the federal government at all costs should stay far away from this.
Also, regarding state law, im guessing a lot of states have similar term limits, i'm not sure any have any explicit term limits of presidential terms, but given that it's in the constitution, i'm guessing a few of them have that somewhere. If not in their constitution directly.