re: #246 Decatur Deb

We’re too close to see it. Trump is most likely an irritating blip on the historical scale.

Alternatively, he could be Julius Caesar or even Augustus. And if he is a blip, it’s increasingly likely that that’s because he forces the country to actively back Russia’s ‘re’acquisitions of “the” Ukraine and the Baltics, which is a path that would inevitably lead to a Sino-EU alliance, WWIII, and the liberation of Russia and the US.

Even if the EU gets to be the occupying power afterward, they’d likely abolish the Constitution as the original enabler of our fascist turn, which would suck (and whatever national symbols are in use are in danger of being outlawed as hate speech,).

If China gets to write the rules, then it’s likely WWIII will have been The War to Make the World Safe for Authoritarianism, in which case Trump will have been a blip in terms of ‘where on the political spectrum’, but not as in ‘type of leader we’ll continue to have for the rest of my life”.