The US Army isn't big enough to take over the whole country at once; they'd have to have the National Guard on board.

The governors of every state would have to mobilize their units.

Now, if there was an actual major calamity going on [think of an actual invasion from China] the governors would fall into line pretty quickly. If it was Donald Trump declaring martial law after losing an election the Dem governors would line up to oppose him.

I mean, you already have SA ICE thugs going around breaking the law with impunity ... so, pretty much nothing would change?

Like all countries where this has happened before, it all depends on which side the military chooses. The outcome will be decided by a couple of generals.

I wouldn't be surprised if imposing martial law led to a series of events that culminated in a civil war.

Unless someone with opportunity eliminated Trump from office by one means or another immediately after he sent the order. This would probably be the best path to avoid having the country rip itself apart.

With the Democrats being lame ducks, the Republicans being mindless yes-men without a spine, and SCOTUS being mostly bootlickers, I guess you'll end up with martial law.

The people of the United States would lay down like beaten dogs and take it. The US military would gleefully and joyfully go along with it, because that's always what they've done.

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From what I've seen so far, the people of the US would go along with it.

They haven't marched on the White House en masse to remove him after Trump was revealed to be a rapist, then a child rapist. Nor when his gestapo were murdering people in the street. Nor when children were being teargassed, or trafficked by them. Nor as people are wasting away (and sometimes dying/being murdered) in his gulags, citizen or not. Nor when he openly flaunts his corruption. Nor when he comes within a gnat's whisker of starting WWIII!

It won't just be MAGAts that aren't trusted when Trump finally dies, it'll be the US as a whole, given what's been accepted by the population in general, MAGat, or not. The line in the sand is constantly redrawn. People referring to the protections offered by the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights after Trump is gone - as if they're in some way superior to other countries - will be looked at derisively, because nothing was done to protect people's rights, nothing was done to apply penalties for those in power breaking the law.

Hundreds of millions of people tweeted, marched, and wrung their hands while the worst leader in the free world fucked you all in the ear and took your money. And that was pretty much it.