How Will It All End?
This is an excerpt from the Substack of Robert Reich, a professor at UC Berkeley and a former secretary oof labor.
I don’t have to tell you how bad it is. If you’re like me, you approach each day’s news with a knot in your stomach. The question I keep asking myself (and others) is how will this Trumpian daymare end? Where will we be, say, four years from now?
Let me give you a few scenarios … of the likeliest outcome four years from now.
1. America will have elected a strong, charismatic progressive. He or she will have ridden to major victory on the backlash against Trump’s disastrous economy and attacks on our democracy. Congress will also be progressive. … our system prevailed and we’re on the road to remedying years of bullying and cruelty, and coming out stronger for it.
2. Trump will be gone and we’ll have a Democratic president, but the majority will continue to be angry and distrustful of most institutions. Some strong and progressive governors will have gained the political and moral authority to deal with many social problems, but Washington will remain gridlocked.
3. Trump will be gone and JD Vance will have been elected president. Vance will have won by a small margin against a popular Democrat. Vance will be no less authoritarian than Trump, and no less dangerous. American democracy will still be intact, … but it is teetering even more ominously than it is today.
4. There will have been no 2028 election. America will be a dictatorship. Trump, Vance, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., and others in the regime will have all but eliminated dissent. The resistance will have gone underground. . . .