by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Fucking Trump. Ugh. The only thing stopping him from consolidating power in the US the way Putin did in Russia is he’s too dumb and lazy. If Trump wasn’t such a fucking malignant moron, he could easily turn the US over the course of the next four years into something that was drifting towards the legalistic tyranny of modern day Russia.
But I worry that Trump is so stupid and so lazy that he will try to force things in such a way that the country shivers and potentially even buckles into revolution and civil war.
And, yet, as is clearly the case from all my ranting over the years about such things — I can’t predict the future. So, probably what will happen is we’ll drift in fits and starts over the next four years into something closer to Turkey or Hungary.
There may be a Turkey-like coup attempt or something, something that gives Trump an excuse to purge the government in a big way. But, in general, Trumplandia is here — or at least will be in a few days.
