Not to be downer doggie here, but framing one’s thinking around “the next 4 years” is denial. We’re about to go through an unraveling of American expectations. Trump is just a figurehead, a means to mean ends. ALEC and the wannabe oligarchs are prepared for a constitutional convention to rewrite the rules.
@CanisPundit I just *love* the way MSM is depicting this as "Democracy worked".🙄 When someone dies by suicide, do we celebrate his success?
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@Marc_T_Benedict get familiar with the term 'participatory authoritarianism'.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/abs/participatory-authoritarianism-from-bureaucratic-transformation-to-civic-participation-in-russia-and-china/B603F67A20BA35986610986E962EFC54
@CanisPundit Oh, I'll push that on the stack, right after "anticipatory obedience".