Here Is Where We Are in History

 And who we are imitating.

 

As proud of this comparison as the MAGA fascists are, the most embarrassing part is that the Nazi executioners had the “courage” to do their murders in plain sight, mask-less.  Trump’s “Gazpacho” is so certain that they are criminals, likely before imitating “law enforcement,” that they go nowhere without their disguises in position.  Even as degraded and corrupt as the ICE goons are, they are not proud of this moment in history and their part in it.  That may be the only normal thing about the moment in history that we are witnessing.  Otherwise, this is the US equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.  Two years later, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) broke into 15 independent countries. 

Today, it’s certainly not hard to imagine the United States’ lower 48 dissolving into Colin Woodard’s “11 Nations” plus Hawaii returning to independence and Alaska being battled over by Russia, China, and Canada.  Republicans have long been “the party of unintended consequences” and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is very likely to have a totally different outcome than their “plan.” 

Outside of The Far West, the Deep South, and Tidewater, most US citizens would have a hard time surviving under a king or a dictatorship and a “racially pure” society.  And those places, without the moderating influence of the democratic state would quickly devolve into 3^rd world status and feudalism.  The only argument I have with Woodard/s map is that, if The Far West did split off from their more progressive and productive Left Coast benefactors, I suspect the Left Coast would claim, by force, a lot more of the California, Oregon, and Washington territory. 

While Cheeto Benito would likely be the dictator the South and Tidewater worship, I doubt that climate-exposed area will be much more prominent in world politics and power than Italy or Greece is today.  Scraping away diversity and returning to a primitive patriarchy is a formula for cultural decay and economic stagnation. 

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