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You're forgetting something: laws and constitutions don't matter unless those in charge of enforcing it agree with it.
Enforcing laws, the Constitution, judgements from judges - all that is done by the executive.
When there's a fascist corrupt executive function, you get selective enforcement and convenient ignoring of parts of the law, serving the double effect of 1) keeping the corrupt executive in power and in control and 2) discrediting the institutions, furthering the corruption.
Yay.
And at some point, you will also get civil war. It's one thing for Trump to use legal slight-of-hand to look for loopholes in the Constitution...but it's another thing entirely for him to simply violate it.
There is nothing in the legal framework of the United States that allows any president to simply overrule a Constitutional amendment. The 2nd amendment exists to protect the others from an autocratic tyrant.
Is it? The American people have to actually stand up and defend their democracy. I'm not sure that'll ever happen.
Or you get a descent into a dictatorship that it's almost impossible to organize against. Civil war is not inevitable, and I don't see Americans being particularly eager to fight one. And the further the country slides down the dictatorship slope, the less likely it is that you can raise any kind of effective resistance.
If that's the case, then things will eventually lead to another world war. A country as powerful as the US deciding to go full-fascist, will not be tolerated by other world powers for long.
Seems to me that the Western countries are busy trying to appease the fascists, when they're not heading full tilt towards fascism themselves. What happens when we have a fascist USA, a fascist Russia, an authoritarian China, a fascist India, and a Europe that's in large part fascist with residual packets of neoliberalism? Will Brazil and some African countries fight them all? Or will the next war be between the fascist world and the world that's controlled by China?
I think you are mistaking "conflict avoidance" with "appeasement". The rest of the western world is trying to avoid open conflict with those countries...the US included. If the US, Russia or China were to attack any of them, though...there would be war. And the so-called "fascist world" are not capable of remaining functionally united. They'll stab each other in the back as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
Lmao no. Nobody cares as long as America doesn't knock on their door first. You think Europe will declare war on America for enacting a MAGA holocaust, let alone put in enough effort to have even the slightest hope of success? And in that case, do you think China would do literally anything but watch and pit both sides against each other while they profit and maybe invade Taiwan? Geopolitics isn't that simple.
And you think the US won't attack one of their allies, at some point? They've already said they would if they don't get what they want from Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland. Any one of those potential conflicts would lead to wider war.
Nope, none of them will. Canada could become a proxy war between Europe and America, but I fully believe that if push comes to shove they'll be thrown under the bus. I mean, have you seen how Europe has treated Ukraine since 2022? As for the rest, those are non-starters. Mexico and Panama have nothing to do with Europe, and there's no way Britain or Germany are sending troops over Greenland. America would need to attack European home soil for such a thing to happen, and America has self-sufficiency in holocaustable untermensch.
Ukraine isn't a member of NATO. If it was, do you honestly think Europe wouldn't have gotten directly involved by now? They've already declared their unconditional support, and have donated billions of dollars worth of military hardware to their defense. The commitment is there.
Canada on the other hand, is a founding member of NATO. And Greenland is the sovereign territory of another. If the US attacks either one of them, it will trigger article 5 of the charter. The rest of NATO will have no choice but to respond, or leave the alliance...which would immediately open them up to attack from Russia. And they would be forced to defend themselves alone. There is no way any of them would be that stupid. Not with Russia on one side, and the US on the other. It would be suicide.
Americans have been saying that for centuries, but I don't see them taking any action.
So who's gonna fight the civil war?