Once Trump is out in 2028, that will be the true test. Did the swamp actually get drained? Will Democrats come back around to more common sense policies? Will Republicans cuck for Israel and start a war with Iran? Will de-regulation go too far and corporations rule supreme? Who're the 2028 candidates, are they actually decent? How did the next 3 years of deportations go, and is the American citizenry up to continue it? How're things looking with the fent/drug crisis? Is India a superpooer yet? Is Canada a failed state yet? Is Mexico still a narcostate? Some of these might be easier to predict than others...
I think what we're going to see in the future will be something akin to the last days of the Roman Republic.
We will see each side becoming more and more extremist. The POTUS will swing back and forth between the two sides and each one will immediately cancel every EO the last POTUS made and replace them with EO's that fulfill their own agenda. Each will use the instruments of state to punish the other side in ever increasingly harsh ways as bad sentiment builds up between the opposing ideologies. Society will become ever more polarized between the parties as the middle ground shrinks and centrists are forced to choose sides.
This will go on for awhile until things get so extreme in the country due to the massive back and forth law swings that one party will seize power and instigate a civil war ending the American Republic and starting the American Empire. Which side? Beats the fuck out of me.
Really this will all, eventually, be laid at the feet of the 2016 DNC crew who broke the political norms by attacking Trump outside the political sphere, probably under the direction of Hillary Clinton who is a known vengeful cunt who never forgives a slight and always takes her revenge even decades after the fact.
Normally the political class have some sense of unity and unwritten laws they adhere to about once the election is over you let things go. But the DNC of 2016 did not do this, they pursued Trump relentlessly both in the political arena and outside of it. Attacking his business, his family and his support apparatus. Probably in the hope they could drive him off in 2020. Make life such hell that he's just quit and leave but he didn't and after 2020 the elites lost whatever restraint they had left and just went all out. We are all familiar with the circus that was the lead up to 2024.
Under these unwritten laws once the election is over both the winner and loser come together to milk as much money from the public funds as they can. This was the standard understanding that both sides wanted the same thing and much of what was said/promised during the elections was just talking points to feed the masses to keep them complacent while their betters looted as much as they could. Nothing would actually be done or changed, that would upset the status quo. Winner got the bigger slice of the pie but in the end both sides were the same pretty much with the same end goals. Elites always have more in common with each other then the rest of the country. It's one big club and your not invited etc etc.
Along comes Trump in 2016 and for whatever reason his victory sent the then DNC core into so sort of spastic rage (again I blame Hillary). They tossed out the normal unwritten agreement and continued their assault without let up, without pause, without restraint, even after the election was settled. They attacked Trump on all angles relentlessly, they prosecuted his supporters, they prosecuted him, they used the apparatus of the state to punish him for 2016 and 2020. It was unheard of. Even the then boogieman of Nixon was allow to slink off into the dark once he resigned unmolested but even after Trump "lost" in 2020 the assault continued without missing a beat. In fact it ramped up...probably out of fear seeing the growing resentment of the masses, Trump's announcement he would run again and a last desperate attempt to both run him off and show the base the DNC was still the more powerful of the parties.
Now from Trump's viewpoint his actions are completely legit. I believe he honestly wants what he says he wants and he feels not only supported by America at large he feels chosen by God thanks to that near miss. Not only that he feels fully justified in going after these people as in his mind they not only tried to destroy him, jail him, bankrupt him and his family they tried openly to
kill him. So he does what he's doing, fully confident in his actions.
What happens if Newsome does win in 2028?
Well first day he cancels all of Trumps EO's and spews out a slew of his own. He frees all the "wrongfully convicted" lefties and re-ignites the prosecutions of Trump supporters. He will probably go after Trump again as well to appease his bases need for revenge.
Ok so 2032 rolls around and lets say Vance wins, what does he do?
Well first day he cancels all of Newsome's EO's and spews out a slew of his own. He frees all the "wrongfully convicted" righties and re-starts the prosecutions of Newsome's supporters. He will probably go after Newsome as well to appease his base.
Ok so 2036 rolls around and a Democrat wins POTUS and the cycle continues getting more and more extreme every time until the social system itself snaps under the pressure and the two sides finally start openly fighting.
The winner announces a new American Empire in everything but name rules until another uprising inevitably occurs as power corrupts ultimately and history has repeated itself once again. Humanity seems strangely incapable of learning this lesson but it must be in our nature to rock the boat until it capsizes in the hope that it will be our ideology that wins the inevitable conflict.
It all so...tiresome.
