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So, is the USA screwed?
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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History shows us the most likely outcome of this - and IF for some reason we're able to survive and get the best case scenario (i.e. somehow he pisses off the base enough that McConnell/stock neo-con flavored Rs start jumping ship to re-assert the R party as a non-orange cult... not because of a moral compass mind you... but b/c they become worried that doing nothing to stop him will result in their insane rabid base replacing them during R primaries over the next 2 years) - the amount of lasting damage is going to ripple for a while. Also primaries for Rs who support unpopular figures assumes ballots will be "free and fair" hashtag TM etc...
...And that's the best-case "realistic" scenario at this point.
Sadly, even a fantastical more cathartic sequence of events involving ropes and upside down would likely result in power vacuums and chaos and would not guarantee that "good" would take the reins of power.
Assuming he decides to follow through with his recent expansions of power unimpeded, there will be no remaining mechanisms to bring about a good outcome over the next few years... and I'm afraid many folks are going to find out that holding up signs with quips and jeers in designated areas is not going to do much to stop those who have no shame in outright dispatching their enemies - in the same way your grandparents didn't "hold up signs" to stop the top-shelf authoritarians roughly 80 years ago.