Protestors Storm Capital

[Spongebob]

Yeah, conservatism isn’t really all that well-equipped to deal with fascism. In practice, fascist beliefs tend to be roided-up versions of what they already believe, and they tend to not notice anything’s wrong until it’s too late. 

Raskolnikov, meet Svidrigailov.

In general, I believe Republicans/conservatives tend toward Fascism and Democrats/liberals tend toward socialism.  Neither reach those extremes unless an extreme leader appears that is able to dupe enough people into following him/her into the abyss.

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A chilling revelation from Fiona Hill, Trump’s former Russia advisor. Now we know exactly why all the living former Secretaries of Defense suddenly called on the military to refrain from political involvement. They knew Trump’s attempted coup was underway.

Former Trump official Fiona Hill says Capitol riot 'could have turned into a full-blown coup'

"The president was trying to stage a coup. There was little chance of it happening, but there was enough chance that the former defense secretaries had to put out that letter, which was the final nail through that effort. They prevented the military from being involved in any coup attempt. But instead, Trump tried to incite it himself," said Fiona Hill, Trump's former top Russia adviser. "This could have turned into a full-blown coup had he had any of those key institutions following him. Just because it failed or didn't succeed doesn't mean it wasn't real."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...ned-into-a

This is precisely what I was worried about in the days leading up to the count.  Trump had weeks ago replaced some key military personnel with people who were loyal to him.  I don't care how stable everyone believes the US is, if a small army had invaded the capitol and murdered most of the House and Senate, that would have been game over, man.  Those people are the government.  The only people left would be military leaders and it would then have been a question of loyalties and perceived power.  Some generals would have sided with Trump while others might have opposed him.  There would likely have been battles, but with Trump holding the codes to nuclear weapons, he holds all the cards.  What sensible Republican governor is going to oppose a guy with the nuclear codes?  California might have refused to go along, but Trump would likely just wave his hand and say they are no longer in the US.  Once the military, or most of it, had capitulated, that would have been it for the old USA republic.  The days of the American Empire would be born.