[vemv]

At which point the "rest of the world" (everyone but the US) can just threaten Trump with making the US economically irrelevant?

That would seem a simple and peaceful solution to the Trump-inflicted bullying - stop messing around or we'll cease all commerce with you.

As I see it, just the bluff would suffice. Make the threat credible and the higher powers would remove Trump in a day or two.

[exceptione]

  > Make the threat credible and the higher powers would remove Trump in a day or two.

Maybe, maybe not. Trump is here to distract the public via the media business, while behind the scenes ideologues implement Project 2025. The factions behind the GOP aren't aligned on all parts, so an erratic path is to be expected.

What unites them is that their agenda isn't aligned with the electorate. People still try to make sense of things, like this is just another administration, maybe a weird one, but fundamentally part of the same society as you and me. We can't recognize the real nature of that beast, because we are short of imagination. And... we don't want to believe in conspiracy theories, right?

The top isn't compatible with democracy, people like Thiel are not shy about it. We just don't want to believe that.

[vemv]

Thanks, interesting, what articles can I read to learn more?