I agree with almost all of that! Rare, kinda, on the subject of Trumpology. I guess you're right that the military largely passed the test (excepting Flynn, Pompeo and other ex-military traitors), because I imagine there's stuff he tried that we still don't know about. There was talk of seizing voting machines, but I mean like "Hey, Kash, what if we... what if I get a thousand of the good guys, get the best guns for the good guys, only the good guys, and have them here around the property to let everyone know I'm still president. Will the other guys shoot? No, right? They're friends? Don't shoot friends. Kash: How many good guys did you say you've found, so far?" is a totally believable scenario.

There's a bunch of missing text messages now because the little people went along with the coup

Yeah, I noticed that too. Wolf, Cuffari, other Trump-appointed and often acting people. Idiots. I mean seriously, if DoJ decides to prosecute, 'cuz cases like e.g. destruction of records are kinda open and shut, Watergate becomes almost laughable, in comparison. Comparisons to the civil war seem more appropriate.

Yup. System sucks. Problem is, the idea driving the only political camp seemingly capable of taking radical action is that we should change the system to a theo-fascist enthostate. The left has had a few W's lately in policy, but is largely incapable of any action at all, much less radical action. The left is corporate elitists policing progressives. Super amazeballs stuff. Love voting dem.

I think if we get DeSantis instead of Trump, we slip into a slower decline, but it'll give an opportunity for the next carnival barker to rise up on the right. I don't think DeSantis will prove radical enough for the base. Or charismatic, like you've said, or maybe both. Six more years of almost guaranteed ongoing radicalization of the base? Dude they are going to need to freebase AOC head-exploding deepfakes by fall of 2028. The country will obviously be going to shite from DeSantis, who is too meek and mild to nuke Ukraine for us. We'll obviously need someone willing to purge femininity like DeSantis's from the country.

Who knows where we'll be starting from by the time Trumpism has run its course? Maybe we should think about that, and what we'd wanna do at e.g. a Constitutional convention. Find additional ways to place checks on the executive? Re-codify and amend or recommit to enforcing/preserving human rights? Economic restructuring? Ranked. Choice. Voting.?