by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Oh boy. The Pod Save America guys continue to jump the shark. They get so worked up about what was on the latest South Park that they seem to be rather blasé about how tyranny has come to the United States.
There’s just no turning back, it seems. We’re going to be an autocracy like Hungary if we’re lucky and Russia if we’re not.
I think what might happen is Eric Trump will run in 2028 as Trump’s proxy? Maybe? Eric Trump is very loyal and I could see Trump feeling pretty safe using one of his sons as a proxy. It is telling, of course, that instead of trying to change the Constitution, Trump floats the idea of him simply running for an illegal third term.
And, of course, there remains the lingering possibility of a civil war or revolution if Trump goes nuts and, like, clamps down on…freedom of speech and maybe assembly.
The great irony of all of this is the center-Left democratic coalition is so weak that Trump can pretty much do whatever he wants and it’s a lulz. It’s stuff like this that makes me think we’re in some sort of simulation. That the exact sequence of events necessary for the USA to become an autocracy would happen the way it is, is…eerie.
