#As an example theres a fringe chance someone assassinates Trump and then sparks a mass civil war

[nikkisticki]

You think there’s an American coup shortly on the way????

Wow that was fast

yeah? I could sit here and spend a lot of time explaining the full length of my actions and thoughts, but the short version is that during the 2016 election I began to notice substantially more racists and bigots being all the more extreme and realized that something bad might be happening, so I spent several years as a side project examining, communicating and trying to deradicalize people who have been drawn into the far-right hole.

Incidentally, in hundreds of conversations I think I succeeded maybe six times

Irregardless, I can tell you that there's a substantial chunk of Americans who have been radicalized to such an extent that there's no turning back; these people will believe whatever they are told and are absolutely frothing at the mouth, ready to kill if given a "morally righteous" reason, and consume media which exclusively feeds them further radical thought (the amount of active popular grifters has gotten so large they are forming their own fucking companies made of several layers of huckster). They will never stop believing this crap as it's become inherent to their Idealogy, effectively a building block of their soul.

As well, Qanon followers didn't just magically go away. While a large number of them have learned to not actively reveal their hand and more have simply decided it was a psy-op, they still entirely believe that a cabal of deep state pedophiles are blah blah blah blah...

This is a substantial base on top of your standard "Republican/Conservative" who doesn't know what fascism is and doesn't care as long as their guy wins, cause they might TAKE OUR GUNS! As the first coup has shown they are willing to do whatever they are told if their blood is running hot, even if they are all incompetent idiots.

Trump's nailed to a wall, he can't escape this many indictments, something will get him...unless he becomes the president again, which he could even from jail! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the polls are going UP for him as he gets more indictments.

He openly intended to take over America, he's not magically decided against it since then and there's a great deal of rich twats who'd love for this to happen, so do you think it magically stops here? I don't.

If you were to play strategy and try to determine the possible outcomes of 2024, there's only a few I can think of

1) Trump wins > mass riots > civil war

2) Trump wins > coup > civil war

3) Trump wins > further irrevocable damage to the American political system > Civil war but down the line (unlikely)

4) Sleepy Joe wins > Trump throws a coup > Wins (Probably unlikely as the military would be forced to back the bag of bones currently pretending to be not racist (Biden) )

5) Sleepy Joe wins > Trump throws a coup > loses

6) Sleepy Joe Wins > Democrats/legal system actually do something useful and stop Trump from committing a coup > America is still on the brink of collapse (where's it's been for years)

7) Sleepy Joe Wins > Trump goes to jail > 2028 sees a new strong man to replace him as Trump's chosen candidate > See above but replace Trump with their name

There's a functional rot in America that just isn't going to magically go away even if Trump is arrested, there's no stopping the The right with their S.C majority while the Democratic party is functionally no better and only marginally less inclined to upset cis het whitefolk (if your not white, they don't care about you beyond performative gestures). They won't ever change (there's a reason why MLK said Moderates are the biggest hurdle to equality), so here's an obvious spot in history for any old bigot to take the stand and try to "Make America Great Again"

Largely speaking, I'd rather there's no violence, but I'm also not some fool who errantly believes that America is "too great and strong " to split and fall into chaos. The country has been radicalized towards Christo-Fascism and there's no stopping it unless people play legal hot potato and keep offices from being filled by them until they all die of old age and Covid...

Oh and that's not going to happen because part of Qanons movement has been to convince people to infiltrate government (mostly local, but you've got senators and congressmen who are connected to it all the way down to infiltrating the positions of election officials) and attempt to aid their president, when the time comes. This is on top of the countless corporate ghouls who currently have political power that are directly paid and bought for by rich white conservatives.

Ideally, Trumps coup is a thousand bigots getting arrested/shot...but the cops don't like siding against their own, do they?

edit: btw irregardless of what happens there's nothing anyone can do besides prepare as the legal system is useless and the only solution would be mass riots and the near entire removal of all politicians from federal and state positions, which I'm all for!

So don't worry about it too much, it won't help anything.