A few weeks in and Trump has essentially:
- Full control of the (federal part of the) legislative branch.
- Gutted the executive branch through DOGE and EOs.
- Practically DDOSed the judicial branch.
- Purged and replaced possibly disloyal military leadership.
- Taken exploratory steps on declaring military law.
- Made very thinly veiled threats of invasion towards several countries, two of which are currently allied with him.
- Wiped out more than a century of foreign policy gains in a week (which is honestly somewhat impressive, in a fucked up kind of way).
Americans, if you ever wondered how the rise of the Nazi dictatorship looked like from the inside of Germany, wonder no more, it looked kind of like this.
Could still go either way I think. But good point, the Night of the Long Knives is certainly going to be interesting. I kind of see Trump as having the edge though, with large parts of the cult being loyal to him as a person.
It’s just a bit of nitpicking in the naming because I prefer calling things what they are not otherwise they end up losing meaning.
You are right until the whole thing is settled it can go either way, it can even go back to “democracy” (two party system isn’t really very democratic)