This is dangerously sanguine. He has years to keep purging the federal bureaucracy & bending it to his service.
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David Dayen
Bad things will still happen. Lives will be upended. But the coup, the quick strike to take over the government, is over. Trump lost, and the public is in the process of abandoning him. From me:
prospect.org/politics/202...
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And accelerating the divide between the insanely rich and everyone else.
And jailing their opponents.
He's using the world's largest economy to bully old friends and new allies into letting the worldwide plutocratic pillaging continue.
Remember Axis and Allies? Which side do you think we're on this time?
Fascism isn't instant.
Celebrating a drop in polls that are above 45% is pointless. It means he hasn't lost any support.
I.e. it's a cult.
Like Putin's assumption he would take Kyiv in 3 days - fair argument that Trump/Elon similarly failed in that dimension.
But they still have many options to do a lot of damage.
And we will have to dig in for more years of brutal assaults.
Political gravity works slowly, and incoming presidents usually enjoy months-long honeymoons (Biden's lasted until September 2021).
matter what.
It’s a dumpster fire in time lapse.