Trump is out here paving the path for the next would-be authoritarian, who will be much better at this than him.

Imagine if someone w more support from state legislatures had a government shutdown, paramilitary potential & an about to expire eviction moratorium in their back pocket. The Dems didn't have a plan to top that outside of people hating Trump enough, which we thankfully did.

So the GOP will continue shopping for their antichrist. There is no way forward for them that doesn't involve the eventual restoration of pre-VRA voting dynamics. Anyone who thinks they won't do what they are ALREADY DOING to maintain power is in denial. They have an end game.

I just don't think they're willing to blow a decades long project on a president who has managed to disadvantage himself to this extent. They expected him to generate some kind of path to victory, or at least confusion, they could be insistent about. He gave them no material.

I'm not saying neoliberalism ends well. Y'all who know my work know I believe that, on a long enough timeline, both roads lead to authoritarianism. I'm just talking about the zombie in front of me. TV and movies have given me the impression that you deal with that one first.