by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Like a two year old in the other room who suddenly goes quiet, Trump is up to no good right now. Usually, he’s screaming at the top of his lungs about this or that thing. But since the election, he’s been (relatively) quiet.
I continue to believe that we’ll see Trump as a transitional figure. It will be his successor who ultimately consolidates power for MAGA and puts us somewhere on the Turkey –> Hungary — > Russia spectrum of autocratic states.
It seems as though, in general, we’re going to see the world order thrown up in the air pretty soon. Nothing is off the table. Everything from the end of NATO to Trump pretty much acting as an actual tyrannical dictator from day one is on the table.
This brings up an interesting issue — what if when Trump’s tyranny concrete people freak out? Right now, a lot of the worst things Trump wants to do — like mass deportations — are rather abstract in people’s minds. But when actually does that shit, whoa, buddy, could things go to hell in a handbasket pretty quickly.
And, really, for me the issue is Trump is so dumb and lazy that he could enact such a lurch forward into tyranny that people try to depose him, which, in turn, would cause a civil war because Red States would get angry. But that’s extremely speculative on my part.
Probably what will happen is we’ll just shrug our way into tyranny and either I am forced to flee the country or I get a ICE bullet to the back of the head because I won’t shut up about how big a cocksucker Trump is and how much I hate MAGA.
