Yeah, this is pretty much spot on. As an ex-Soviet, I'm getting deja vu from Trump's regime. Americans' trademark boundless optimism about things always working out in the end for them is quickly turning into complacent laziness and willful blindness. eand.co/we-dont-know-h…
Realistically, I don't think that critics of the government will be jailed or disappeared in the next four years if Trump wins. There will still be enough pushback. But if the GOP can consolidate enough power under him, just about anything is on the table for 2024 and beyond.
It's already mainstream right wing thought that political opposition should be prosecuted for treason just for being the political opposition. The worse things get for them, the angrier they'll become and the more violence they'll start demanding.
We are very much in the first stages of sectarian conflict, the kind that afflicts the Middle East on a daily basis and makes it pretty much impossible to have a first world, civilized country as the state is controlled by a minority that loathes the majority with an unholy zeal.
But that's what happens when a major political party spends the last half century portraying any attempts to use government resources for the common good, or practice basic empathy and compassion to anyone outside their base, as nothing short of treason and white genocide.
