by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
If Trump wins, then I think it means that this is who we are in 2024 — a nation that has finally sunk into fascism. Our democracy has been on its last legs for some time now and if Trump wins — even if he does so by successfully cheating — then I think This Is It: America has decided it’s no longer an idea but a nation of “blood and soil”
I have long thought that someone like Trump, if you were doing psychohistory, was bound to pop up in our political history at some point because of demographic changes. Trump has always been just a vessel, an avatar for some fucked up shit going on in our body politic.
He’s not a great man. Far from it. He’s too lazy and dumb to be a great man. But if he wins on Election Day, then it will mean that the greatest counter-revolution since 1860 is about to take place.
But if Trump wins — even if he has to cheat to do so — that’s it. We’re going to slide into an autocracy much like Hungary, if we’re lucky, and Russia if we’re not.
And, yet, there is a risk that Trump is so dumb and lazy that he’ll go full tyrant on us from day one and, well, who knows. Maybe the US Military will have to step in and depose the motherfucker. (Not that I want that, but it something to muse about in the abstract.)
Anyway. If Trump does win, holy shit are we in for some fucking chaos.
