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Now What?

With the fascists ready, willing and probably able to steal the next elections, the time has come to think about what is to be done with the Orange Hitler once he makes himself king.

We are already there in all but name. The problem is that the arc of his spiritual predecessors Hitler and Mussolini has ended in their countries’ physical destruction. I have no interest in having what is left of this country bombed out of existence, and would truly prefer to find a less destructive way to end the corruption in Washington.

I can’t say that the current state of the District, with its endless monuments to white power and the rich getting richer wouldn’t be better off flattened, but there are also many far less fortunate people living there that deserve a better fate, just as there are in every city. Conventional warfare tends to destroy cities and economies, leaving the trailer park freak show that is “the base” for the fascists largely untouched.

So how do we eliminate the fascists without eliminating the citizenry? How do we rebuild the country and its institutions in a more human and humane way in the wake of a half-century of creeping fascist destruction? The fascists have bought up and destroyed almost the entire free press that the founders counted on to prevent this sort of disaster, and the tech army that is Facebook, Amazon, Google and (it really doesn’t matter who else) has destroyed the freedom of expression on the internet by burying all of the real content in mountains of lies and viagra sales pitches.

The most effective way to make the orangutan vanish is to leave him to his own devices. Eliminate his McConnell, his Pence, his Bill Barr, his Whitehouse circus and watch him crash and burn like a vampire in sunlight, funny as hell but extremely sad. He hasn’t enough intellect left to write a speech on his own, so all there would be left for speeches are his usual Nazi-class harangues, and those getting worse as he decays into his own sewage further and faster.

I have no clue how to do this, of course. It has the virtue of not making a saint out of him, however, since even the most lunatic fringe of Q-anon land is going to have trouble associating themselves with a babbling idiot who publicly melts down repeatedly and continuously on his own Whitehouse reality show, and sooner or later even the weirdest are going to want someone more entertaining.