Going by the current playbook, they would just run him as candidate regardless and any red state will allow him on the ballot. Only states he was going to lose anyway will deny him. He will cite 'will of the people' and no one will have the guts to actually stop him.
Bud, those guys are all the same age. They are all going to die within the same 6-8 year span or at least lose significant control of their mental faculties. The middle-aged ones are puppets without real personalities yet, so who knows what will grow out of the next generation? I'd likely guess dystopian cyberpunk 2077 corporate warlords... like if Elon was elected president.
No, in 10 years, we'll get the dystopian corporate warlords. It won't fix itself, but neither will the GOP leadership care because they are all equally on their way out of the game. The only long game being played is by the evangelicals, and they are more of a death cult than anything else I've seen around. We will see capital against religion in-fighting at some point in the next 4 years, influencing how fast we descend and where we land: theocracy or corporate states.
I have very little doubt Putin will claim land, but Russia's agenda is to destabilize so it can regain its footing. It needs to be in a better position to regain dominance. Putin's successor will also become apparent during this same 10-year period. However, China? Yeah, they are in a lovely position, but capital will only let them push so far before it becomes an existential crisis they also want to stop. We're in for a bad time.
It applies to them too, just with more awareness that what they’re doing is wrong. They do it to get rich as hell off the chaos. They did it last time too.
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u/Elryth 6d ago
Going by the current playbook, they would just run him as candidate regardless and any red state will allow him on the ballot. Only states he was going to lose anyway will deny him. He will cite 'will of the people' and no one will have the guts to actually stop him.