If there is no accountability and we manage to rebuild the country, we will literally just be back here in another 100 years. This is the same exact conflict that we had a civil war about. They are the same incensed racist pigs who cannot abide by people being equal.

After the civil war, reconstruction was intentionally sabotaged by SOUTHERN POLITICIANS because they wanted to foster resentment towards the north. And it fucking worked. If we follow the same path, we will get the same results. Another endless century of hate and violence against anyone who isn't white.

These fuckers NEED to held accountable in some regard. I will not tolerate anything less.

Frankly? I hope they eat their own guns. 🤌🏼

Literally nothing is going to happen to them. If we're lucky, Trump doesn't go full dictator and we just have another election where they back whoever the candidate is and fully support whatever it is they want to do. There is no world where they face any sort of backlash/accountability for their actions that they haven't already from family/friends.

If history has anything to say about them, it will be like Germany where in a decade or so suddenly "no one" voted for Trump. No one admits it

You can't hold 40% accountable any more than you can declare them mentally ill. Not that I'm happy about that but I'm trying to be realistic. I think we'll try to move on best we can and if we can, put guardrails in place (but I don't know what that would even look like).

The Supreme Court is probably going to be a problem for decades. I'm fifty. I'm going to be dead before this country is unfucked.

Maybe they will be buried with him when he croaks. Like a pharaoh's cat, or something.

Today is a good day to leave the cult.

The root problem of Trumpism isn't going anywhere, these people were largely "like that" before Trump and they'll be like that after Trump.

At best, we may find that the right is directionless after Trump, unable to unify behind a single face. There are other right-wing figures just as bad or worse than Trump, but many of them are ideologues who don't have the same kind of broad appeal. But this will only be a temporary setback. Even if the Democrats win, we'll just get more neoliberalism, and we'll get a situation like with Kier Stamer in the UK, where people got sick of the Tory clownshow enough to give Labour a chance, but then one of the first things Labour did was to cut Winter fuel subsidies and their popularity plummeted. Democrats likewise can always be relied on to drop the ball and alienate the working class.

There may not even be an offramp on the path towards fascism at this point but if there is it involves the left putting forward a bold vision that offers a plausible alternative to both neoliberalism and fascism. Otherwise, if the choice is between neoliberalism and fascism, then it's only a question of how long it takes for neoliberalism to decline to the point that people will gamble on fascism, which is what brought us here in the first place.

Don't treat Trump as some sort of anomaly or fluke, don't think that the US will stop being Trumpian once Trump is no longer president.

Don't count out whomever America's Stalin is, to swoop into the void that's left.

Ask Jeffrey.

You have to realize that Trump is the symptom not the disease. The draw of power is such that another petty tyrant will be ready and able to take his place, placating the rabid maga base’s need to focus and sustain their hate, xenophobia, racism, and intolerance. If Orange Shitbastor doesn’t get himself a third term, look for Cowface Desantis or Dipshit Vance to start edgelording the simplefolk.

The only “offramp” for them is through education, but conservatards are trying their best to ruin that. The bottom line is that humanity is entering another dark age and it may be a century before there is another ‘enlightenment’.

The difference this time is that by the time the next enlightenment cycle happens the planet will be a smoking ball of shit.

Your best bet is to just have a Pepsi and go play some Fortnight.