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I don't know. They already (famously) put children in cages last time around, AND-PEOPLE-STILL-VOTED-FOR-HIM.
About percentages, 77M+ people voted R, and IIRC there were 160M registered voters, so close to half of voters voted for him, much more than 20%.
Apologies, I mentally did percentage of population, not percentage of adults/voters. The Fascists got 29% of voting-aged adults. I will say there is still a massive percentage of the population just watching this happen--voting against it is not enough. in Nazi Germany, saving children from torture was illegal. People are still talking about this like there's some sort of holiness to the legal system: there isn't. It's not a justice system, it's a highly corruptible legal system. Enough people can rise up and easily stop this, they're just too scared to do it, because man, one thing I've learned since 2016 is just how terrified the average American is most of the time. Then actual things to be afraid of arrive, and they freeze up.
I think the 29% is if you include all adults, but many are not elegible (immigrants, felons, etc) and might have voted R if they could.
Call me pessimistic, but I think there's enough people to rise up.