I spent the vast majority of early and mid 2020 desperately trying to make people understand that if he wins again it's going to be 1000 times worse because this time he actually understands that being president is not the same thing as running a business and that there are checks and balances and he has spent the last four years unilaterally removing every possibility of having anyone in his orbit that would be willing to try to stop him. Like John Kelly and Mike Pence are horrible, terrible people yet they refused to violate the constitution for him. Trump learned his lesson, and this time around way before the election he had already removed everyone but the most ass kissing sychophants.
There is literally no one who will even try to stop him anymore. Our country is done. We are fucked. We are completely fucked. And the number of people who don't realize this yet, the number of people who still believe that someone or something will be able to stop him is astonishing to me. We are absolutely goddamn fucked in every possible way. No one is coming to save us, no one is going to stop him. We will be an authoritarian oligarchy within 18 months
Not if every single non Trumper riots on the streets and oust him from his palace. This has been done before. Regimes have been toppled. All you need is the will of the people, not quitting en mass like educated democrats have been bred to do.
Problem is they've weaponized the stupidity of the Trump base to stand opposed to any rebellion on the left. We need a fair amount of the Trumpers to switch sides so it doesn't turn into a civil war.
Look I hear you and if this goes on, you will have a civil war on your hands. I don't see a way out of it, especially because there's too much emphasis on gun culture in USA. But look Asad was ousted, tyrants have been toppled, Indians kicked out the British after a bloody 200 years of exploitation. No system of power is so entrenched that it cannot be rooted out with enough death and blood. But that's it, that's a heavy price to pay.
On the flip side, I have to say — trump is and will be able to dismantle American relatively easily and legally-ish. If it's so easy, so bloodless and unobstructed for him to seize power and plant a dictatorship, what does it say about the system that made it possible? Maybe you guys need a civil war. And to rethink your elections, your executive bodies and how you give power to your leaders
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u/ranchojasper 17h ago
I spent the vast majority of early and mid 2020 desperately trying to make people understand that if he wins again it's going to be 1000 times worse because this time he actually understands that being president is not the same thing as running a business and that there are checks and balances and he has spent the last four years unilaterally removing every possibility of having anyone in his orbit that would be willing to try to stop him. Like John Kelly and Mike Pence are horrible, terrible people yet they refused to violate the constitution for him. Trump learned his lesson, and this time around way before the election he had already removed everyone but the most ass kissing sychophants.
There is literally no one who will even try to stop him anymore. Our country is done. We are fucked. We are completely fucked. And the number of people who don't realize this yet, the number of people who still believe that someone or something will be able to stop him is astonishing to me. We are absolutely goddamn fucked in every possible way. No one is coming to save us, no one is going to stop him. We will be an authoritarian oligarchy within 18 months