General Discussion

I doubt that Americans - who are across the board FEELING the Trump economy and the impact of his imbecilic policies and appointments and actions daily in real life and real time - are going to be as credulous any further for him. There is a limit to how much you can get away with before you have to resort to full on violence to enforce things like voter fraud and manipulation further.

If things are close enough to maintain the illusion, then the public can and will be lulled to sleep... but when the shit is running down the walls and the fans are no longer being hit but are instead wafting the smell in all directions... THEN its a much heavier lift. Competent, serious people are not part of their movement - they are literally overrun by greedy and foolish people who either believe that their money means we should all do whatever they say (Zuckerberg / Bezos) or that their warped views are self-evidently true and should not be questioned (Thiel / Musk) or just plain old narcissistic jackasses (Trump et. al.). Regardless, there is a lot of assuming and grabbing of power but precious little in terms of actions that would do anything but break things further - no policies, no programs, no systems of giving ANYTHING to the population - instead it is all bombast, all the time.

There is a frustration building in the country that is not going to break into 2 neatly divided camps - there will be regional factions that break that way, but nationally it won't. The question is whether or not the federal government remains potent enough (and has enough real leaders and men and women of vision for a shared future) to prevent sectional violence from spreading to national fracture.