General Discussion

The architects of America's descent into autocracy have nearly completed their foundation and framework. The national force of secret police has been funded and authorized. DOJ and the judicial branch have been brought to heel at their highest levels. The gulags are being authorized, normalized and even sought out by some state-level leadership. Education is being hacked at with increasing frenzy. Information and entertainment networks are gradually capitulating.

The most crucial piece left will be the measures taken in next year's midterms to normalize enhanced gerrymandering, the presence of physical threats at polling places and the intervention of "election oversight" to game the returns. Once that's done, the cult leader won't be needed.

The United States will have fallen in a pattern familiar across human history.