[woggy]

I don't see the US surviving the Trump administration.

[Spivak]

We basically get two chances if you want to follow the normal procedure. Swing congress during the midterms and lock him up for the remainder of his term and or elect a democrat in four years who will tear up the stack of executive orders and make the rounds apologizing to everyone.

[input_sh]

There are many autocrats around the world, look up what happened to free elections after they came into power.

Spoiler alert: they quickly deteriorate and the next 3-4 cycles become far less free than the election cycle that put them into power.

[cosmicgadget]

We won't even get those chances if either Roberts or Barrett roll over.

[anigbrowl]

I mean both of those options (minus the locking up) were tried last time. Even if Democrats were to win elections as described, another round of apologies and saying nice things about institutionalism is not going to cut. I felt pretty sure Trump had a good chance of being re-elected from 2022 onward, Democrats simply didn't want to believe that a large part of the electorate are assholes or that they would need to change up their policy/electoral/comms game. Some of them still don't want to believe it.

[kurtis_reed]

Oh please

[woggy]

I think you have your head in the sand.

This Harvard thing is just one example. Just saw a report this morning (Aus time) of an Australian detained, stripped, and held overnight in a US federal prison. She was just coming in to visit her husband.

Who the hell will want to come to the US now? You are going to suffer a massive reverse brain drain. You got a 30% tariff tax, kidnapping of random people off the street including US citizens, blatant and overwhelming corruption at the highest levels, weaponizing of government to target people, institutions and private companies.

Good luck in the midterm 'elections'.