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Presidencies are over. The guy is literally trying to normalize calling himself king as well as anything that supports the shift into a personality cult authoritarian state. It will take time and the loss of liberties will be the only thing that trickles down exponentially. This transition is also being performed by idiots who can't comprehend that there are other timers running out for our world, largely because they can't discern it from the bullshit they spew, and those who can but just think it's a good way to get ahead for when shit hits the fan.
This is it. This is it for the US. People still thinking that midterms aren't going to be screwed over to deny a fair election are fooling themselves. Even if anything where to topple Trump, it is a systemic problem and one where all the major institutions have already been corrupted from the top. There is no getting back from this. There is no getting back from having to share a democracy with a cult and with people still being so indoctrinated by faux patriotism, power, and wealth that they won't ever realistically consider seceding into like minded states - why, just imagine, how unpatriotic -gasp- .
The economy? Your social security? Your freedom? I don't know how low it will go, but since most Americans only seem to care for themselves, to them, at the very least, they should expect to be cast off into a separate "lower class" if they ever shift to the wrong political association from now on.