Or the military command structure fractures and now they have several warring regional or state fractions/civil war, or the military leadership enacts a coup when given illegal orders and either holds executive under military threat or hands control back to the legislature or judicial to hold a special election.

They are unable to see any of these unintended possible consequences of their actions, the same way they are unable to identify irony, or have empathy, or entertain hypotheticals.

This is one of the reasons why Lincoln was emphatic that the south had to draw first blood. That allowed him to set the war in motion.

The problem this time is that the fascists are in power and they have their hands on the levers. They are drawing first blood through their laws and executive orders.

At some point, liberals will have to fight back. I fear that more people will die before that happens

And every single person is likely armed.

I like this idea. What does it look like?

One or two skilled people identify a venue (public high school gym? Public park? Local, non-corporate movie theater? A stadium?) and schedule a date and time?

Come up with a draft agenda to discuss at the meeting, publish it somewhere accessible online, and request comments to consider additions/revisions?

Do the same thing for a meeting ruleset to ensure it remains productive and not just an excuse to suck up oxygen by venting/ranting? Use something like a ‘talking stick’?

Have petitions ready for signature so attendees can formally record their views and desires upon conclusion of the meeting?

Identify 3 or so topics to rally behind and ask for volunteers to lead or serve on committees to act on them?

I want this stuff to be actionable, not just a “someone should do this!” complaint.

I’m not an organizer… I’m naive on how this kind of thing works…but I’d like to be part of an organized movement to make things trend toward better before it gets worse.

Good use of air bunnies!

I don’t think you understand how idiotic Americans have become. All it takes is an Orange Turd to convince them.

And Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive Republican that opposed trusts and the imbalanced influence of money in politics (but the changes began to happen during his time, which is why he left the party altogether). There was a time when “Republican” just referred to the kind of governmental structure one supported (just like “democrat”), with a range of economic and social views. That’s actually what the “grand” in Grand Old Party (GOP) referred to iirc—it was a party big enough handle a range views and ideas. AND, again iirc, the whole push for republican governmental ideas by said party was to find a way around the stranglehold of slavery in American economics. Representative government could make decisions that the populace might not support because it was the morally correct thing to do (which is also why the concept of electors was advanced by Hamilton, incidentally: as a safe-guard against tyranny—electors could look at an elected candidate and say “nah” because that person was actually likely to work against the interests of the United States).

How the mighty have fallen.

They see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Don’t you know? If it wasn’t for all those damn liberals giving away all the money to those illegal-ish immigrants I would be a millionaire too! I have worked hard so obviously it is their fault I am not wealthy yet! /s

Fair point, but I suppose that’s the majority of the population in Columbus Nebraska

And this is the curse of the two party system in action. In reality, we have more in common with one another than we think, save for those solely driven by bigotry and fear(and there’s a lot of those)

They also had all branches during W’s term when he crashed the economy and started two never ending wars.

The Republican voter is dumber than a bag of rocks. Hell, even a bag of rocks would learn faster than a Republican voter.

He was still getting his feet wet in that term and he only had them all for half his term. And they at least pretended to give a shit about the less wealthy constituents, that tax break they gave to “everybody” expired for the middle and lower class after a year or two but was there for the wealthy well into Biden’s term.

This time they’re not even pretending to care. They’re relying completely on their propaganda to convince their idiotic fans that tariffs are going to be a tax on other countries and their bills will go lower as a result of it. Meanwhile they’re going to gut Medicaid and other social services in order to give money to the wealthiest people in the country.

So in answer to your comment, they will hopefully notice this time because they’re going to be hurting as a direct result of what Trump is doing as opposed to something he could deflect as being “because liberals”.

At least not only Republicans. Republicans may have very well been annoyed at their party, but “tax the rich” is a very Democrat chant.