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Not likely. He's not going to leave office until he passes, and he's ~80 with poor health and fitness.
That’s the only thing that will save the US. Even then, I think there will need to be another American revolution of some sort what that means in the modern world I don’t know.
If you think Little t dying is going to make everyone sane again, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Yes, unfortunately Trump is just a more recent symptom of a deeper systemic problem. When Trump is gone, there will be another authoritarian, potentially a more competent one, that will slide into his spot.
I honestly would prefer Trump to helm the Confederate's side of a 2nd American Civil War. He is the avatar of stupidity, infighting, and unchained greed: these are great for making a society fall apart, and I would like conservative society to crumble into dust.
More competent at governance, surely, but able to cattle-drive the fuckwits en masse? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not going to make anyone sane but it will be the beginning of the end of the cult. Which I also think is not enough, hence the revolution comment
I look at it differently. That cult has been growing for decades, and has been choosing more and more unhinged people to deify year by year.
Growing in online (and in ‘headspace’) presence. In the actual meatspace world it’s mostly 2016 with stupid flags. Current fascist regime notwithstanding.
The Republicans trotted out "family values" in the late 80s as a thinly veiled denigration of anyone not in a "traditional" (Narrator: It's not.) nuclear family.
It means an independent (read not-ad-supported) national news media that can ably use the words “lie”, “fascist”, and “insurrection”.
Now you see why that won’t happen.