by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The lingering political crisis that the United States has been experiencing can’t just keep going on forever. Something’s gotta give one way or another. We’re going to have to make a choice of autocracy, civil war or military junta sooner or later.
At the moment, it seems as though the issue is Trump.
If he is the 2024 Republican nominee, then win or lose, the risk of a Second American Civil War increases dramatically. If he ISN’T the nominee, then the United States is probably going to drift peacefully into autocracy under the next Republican president.
The only possible way we might punt this particular problem down the road is if somehow a Democrat is able to win in 2024 without Red States leaving the Union.
That’s it. That’s all I got.
The conditions of Trump being insane and Biden being very, very old are not exactly the greatest for the long-term health of the United States. I continue to worry that I’m going to become one of millions of domestic political refugees in late 2024, early 2025 when it becomes clear that the United States is about to collapse into Red and Blue nations that want to rid themselves of the other.
Now, let me be clear — I hate violence and, lulz, I have a novel I’d like to publish. So, all things being equal, I’d rather us be an autocracy so at least my six novel project that is just want big rant about how much I hate MAGA will be far more culturally relevant.
But we are still too far away for me to have any sense of what is really going to happen. It all depends on Trump. He could very well be seen, because of macro issues, as the man who single handedly stumbled into Great Man status because he destroyed the United States by being a lazy idiot.
Like I said, I hope it’s autocracy, if we have to make a choice.
