Alone, the Republicans were incapable of gaining power. He’s emperor because they need him, and after he’s gone, they wealthy will try to move back to liberalism. The fascists will get thoroughly blamed for all the sins that the rich were complicit in, while liberalism will not be properly interrogated for allowing fascism to rise again.
He’s only emperor because a bunch of dipshits made it so. Alone, he was incapable of accomplishing this feat of unconstitutional horror.
That said, the passel of dipshits knows he going to die of natural causes any day now, so one has to wonder what the grand post Trump scheme is.
Alone, the Republicans were incapable of gaining power. He’s emperor because they need him, and after he’s gone, they wealthy will try to move back to liberalism. The fascists will get thoroughly blamed for all the sins that the rich were complicit in, while liberalism will not be properly interrogated for allowing fascism to rise again.
As almost-equally horrible as that seems, it also sounds absolutely wonderful, short-term.