Just look at how many people still sport the Confederate flag.
That shit was a WHILE ago, but still alive and well in 2024.
My bet will be on "if at all".
Time says elsewhere in the column that a free press will help slow his roll.
They're utterly whistling past the graveyard. He'll throw reporters in jail, and our recumbent Scotus Six won't do a lick to reverse that.
And even if he doesn’t win, we’re still going to be waiting decades to undo what he and McConnell did to the federal judiciary. Even in the wake of Dobbs and other ongoing cases, I don’t think enough people appreciate just how bad it already is.
He also now knows there are no consequences for his actions. That added with his Supreme Court full of partisan hacks that will do whatever he tells them to guarantees a second term for him will destroy this country.
My concern is that there are those who DO understand it AND want it to happen.
Because they think burning it all down will lead to a utopia rising from the ashes, no matter how many will be burned to create that ash pile.
It won't take that long.
If he's allowed to take power in violation of the 14th amendment, it will mean the US is already over. We'd have to build something to replace it a lot more quickly than that.
