As someone who's lived through a despotic regime - there will be more elections. Whether those elections are free and fair is the question. This also explains the haste at which they are attempting to purge non-partisans from government before the midterms.
Purges/closures/subjugations to watch out for: the press, judiciary, election officials, policing functions (FBI, local police, Attorneys general), domestic (sometimes foreign) intelligence. All of those functions have to be neutralized to hold sham elections, and have their results stand.
