by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Two different things are happening at the same time right now. On one hand, we are an autocracy without an autocrat. At the same time, the last bit of the Trump Era narrative has yet to be told — does Trump do something at the very end that changes the context of the whole thing?
I don’t think people appreciate how the only thing stopping the United States from being an autocracy is the absence of an autocrat to do anything about it. Yes, Trump broke the seal on autocracy, but he, himself, can’t — to date — actually pull of an autocracy.
The issue for me is — is it possible he could entice Republicans to be seditious, attempt a coup — then fail? There are a number of scenarios I could map out where that very thing happens. But as I keep saying, it wouldn’t be some sort of liberal fever dream. It would really, really suck and probably involve Trump completely losing his mind and scaring the shit out of not just the United States, but the entire world.
It would happen very abruptly and be looked back upon as something of a “political 9/11.”
But, really, I’m wrong so much that all of this could be a very big dud, for the better. We’ll just drift into the Biden Era and be in political neutral until Biden gets impeached the moment the House flips.
