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There's going to either be a war or a total collapse. My gut tells me that Trumpublicans are gearing up for the culminating gambit in their promised "deconstruction of the administrative state", and the goal is to render the United States wholly ungovernable as long as it remains the least bit democratic.

For the last forty years, Republicans have been sore losers and cannot and will not accept the notion that the Left also has a valid right to help formulate American values and help run the country in a bipartisan effort together with them.

For the last forty years, the most enduring precept in Republican thinking has been the notion that Democrats, and anyone aligned in any way with left-leaning liberalism are entirely and utterly illegitimate, and at this point, they now openly accuse us of not even deserving of status as legitimate Americans.

The fact that they must put up with losing the occasional election, losing the occasional Congressional majority, put up with having to obey laws that they did not write or approve of, or economic or social policies they disagree with, has rankled them to the point where, finally in 1994, their dam of discipline, decorum and statesmanlike conduct broke altogether, and they began an accelerated push to dismantle any notion of bipartisanship altogether.
When authoritarianism hops into bed with fundamentalist religious zealotry and weaponized foreign skullduggery, a bastard child arising from such an unsavory union is sure to slouch toward a New 21st Century Night of the Long Knives.

It is rather obvious at this point, that Trump Republicans have decided that it is better for them to burn it all down if they can't be allowed to cheat, so we are now witnessing a scorched Earth end run, in a final attempt to delegitimize constitutional remedies to massive corruption. And if they do learn that they truly cannot win at the ballot box or in the halls of constitutional action, they absolutely WILL resort to enlisting outside help from hostile adversaries to ruin the democratic process altogether.

And there is now no question anymore, that failing that, they will indeed attempt to resort to their beloved bullets.
They have already telegraphed that on countless occasions, openly advocating for violence as a solution.

And the worst part of all is, authoritarians of all stripes, both extreme Left and extreme Right, are cheering for the fire.
They know not and care not from whence the fire comes, they are just attracted to any flame which cooks the carcass they hope to feed on.