Prediction: The “this is the last election” theme will be trumpeted everywhere in the media, and the voters will come out again and elect Democrats to fight the Republican scourge, and the Democrats will win! There will be much rejoicing as Good triumphs over Evil (barely! The Rs almost stole it!).
Trump and his family will then leave the White House many billions richer, and the Democratic President will “try” to pass universal healthcare and fail, and will “try” to increase minimum to $15 an hour and fail, and will “try” to increase taxes on billionaires and fail. They will fret over the nuclear option and there will be some talk of using it, but alas, it’s too dangerous! Those darn Republicans!
The voters, disgusted with the incompetence, will turn to their only alternative, and the Republicans will take the White House again.
A bunch of civil unrest will follow, but it will be unorganized. Things will be a bit crazy for awhile, but eventually most of the demonstrators will be quashed, imprisoned, disappeared, or worse (and Trump regime will want everyone to know and believe the worst is happening). The Trump gestapo (ICE) will have gained training and more funding from the GOP traitors, so that even an organized uprising that may finally be formed will also be easily quashed.
This doesn’t have to be our future. But it’s scary how plausible it feels.
Only amendment I’d put in there is that if we do get a competent gestapo it won’t be ICE. ICE, the border patrol before them, and the Texas rangers before them all have a storied history of being impossible to appropriately train and outfit. Since their inception, they’ve been quantity-over-quality bucket of racists and failsons that have only ever been useful as a blunt instrument, despite work stretching back to the Harlon Carter days.
If we get a proper gestapo or KGB, it’ll either come from a different agency or they’ll have to completely gut and restructure ICE first. For now we can scare them off with crowds and airhorns.
Prediction: The “this is the last election” theme will be trumpeted everywhere in the media, and the voters will come out again and elect Democrats to fight the Republican scourge, and the Democrats will win! There will be much rejoicing as Good triumphs over Evil (barely! The Rs almost stole it!).
Trump and his family will then leave the White House many billions richer, and the Democratic President will “try” to pass universal healthcare and fail, and will “try” to increase minimum to $15 an hour and fail, and will “try” to increase taxes on billionaires and fail. They will fret over the nuclear option and there will be some talk of using it, but alas, it’s too dangerous! Those darn Republicans!
The voters, disgusted with the incompetence, will turn to their only alternative, and the Republicans will take the White House again.
… and so on.
It has been this way for over 50 years
No, despite the record turnout and majority votes for Dems, the Republicans will win. Everyone will understand what happened.
A bunch of civil unrest will follow, but it will be unorganized. Things will be a bit crazy for awhile, but eventually most of the demonstrators will be quashed, imprisoned, disappeared, or worse (and Trump regime will want everyone to know and believe the worst is happening). The Trump gestapo (ICE) will have gained training and more funding from the GOP traitors, so that even an organized uprising that may finally be formed will also be easily quashed.
This doesn’t have to be our future. But it’s scary how plausible it feels.
Only amendment I’d put in there is that if we do get a competent gestapo it won’t be ICE. ICE, the border patrol before them, and the Texas rangers before them all have a storied history of being impossible to appropriately train and outfit. Since their inception, they’ve been quantity-over-quality bucket of racists and failsons that have only ever been useful as a blunt instrument, despite work stretching back to the Harlon Carter days.
If we get a proper gestapo or KGB, it’ll either come from a different agency or they’ll have to completely gut and restructure ICE first. For now we can scare them off with crowds and airhorns.