The oligarchs are still around, so no, we didn’t solve anything. We got a small FU to someone who has been skirting Congress, and it remains to be seen if Congress has any power to reign in the executive branch.

In other words, Trump opened a door to Christian mythology through which larger evils may walk onto the same stage and be much worse than he is.

Naw, that’s normal US Christianity, and authoritarianism is the larger evil. Christian Nationalism runs deep in the US; it arrived here with the Puritans.

Nixon’s Southern Strategy opened the door to all of this, and has formed the Republican base of power for ~50 years. Reagan solidified the bond, and gave legitimacy to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham.

Trump set the bar for corruption and disregard for the rule of law. Those are the new and scary parts.

POTUS has been accumulating power and trending towards more of an autocratic positions for years thanks to congress shirking their responsibilities, but this has mainly been held in check by the people who have held the office. They’ve respected the office and US gov customs.

The US needs to seriously clean house. Get rid of the oligarchs. Get rid of the mega-corporations. Get rid of 250 years of history because quite a bit of it is seriously rotten. Restructure the gov to put reigns on the executive branch and make it so the people hold the power.

Is that going to happen? Probably not, so the best advice is to get out and let it crater.

To make the world a better place, people outside the US should help the left-leaning folks migrate over. It could be a swap. Send the right-wing assholes to the US in exchange for more enlightened people. This fixes 2 problems at once. 😃