The destiny of this country is a military dictatorship with large climate-blasted swathes of it being left to neo-feudal pasture

By the time that state collapses, no one is gonna care about "America" as some idealized city-on-the-hill prospect, like the 19th century conception of "Britannia" it will pass into history as a jingoistic anachronism

New formations, new identities, new parties will develop, whether they're communist or not