General Discussion

And thanks to the second amendment, so many are armed. Plus this country is so geographically diverse and too big to subdue en masse. As soon as we notice hundreds of protesting citizens are being rounded up by goons as "domestic terrorists" and put into camps, others will begin to resist and many will choose to die on their feet fighting them rather than be slaughtered like cattle in the camps. They can't kill us all and they don't have the numbers or the sustained fascist ideology to outlast a protracted modern civil war fought for freedom guerilla style in urban and rural settings using low-tech weapons like drones and other improvised tools used to fight them. And during such a conflict, some democratic allies of the US may not sit idly by and not support the resistance. Plus the authoritarian regime may be attacked by other outside adversaries at their greatest time of weakness. And such a conflict will have ruinous effects on economies, both at home and abroad. Is this scenario perhaps too hyperbolic? Maybe, but if this scenario is too bad for business, it may not happen because the wealthy might not profit from it and they may seek to preserve markets by taking steps to avoid such a revolutionary conflict before it starts. And their money that first fueled Trumpistan will instead be spent to depose him.