by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Bad news for anyone who thinks all our MAGA problems would be solved if Trump shuffled off this mortal coil — a President JD Vance would just become America’s Putin and would somehow still be in office 20, 30 or 40 years from now.
I don’t know how he would do it, but he would.
That’s how bad the MAGA political staph infection is in America at the moment. Vance would quickly consolidate power in ways that Trump is too old and ill focused to do.
One question I do have about this scenario is First Amendment rights. The United States even at this advanced stage in our transformation into a fascist state still has freedom of speech and of assembly. They are something of a valve for a lot of frustration that people feel about MAGA.
I think First Amendment rights would be the last to go, I suppose. So, the average individual really wouldn’t feel any difference for about a decade or so. By that point ICE would be large enough and powerful enough that it could throw people — like ME! –into prison for telling them to fuck off.
Anyway, I don’t think we have to worry about any of this for the time being. Trump’s historical purpose is to collapse the Constitutional order by running for a third illegal term. When he successfully proves THAT point, THEN the real dystopian hellscape will commence.
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