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Americans won't do anything. They'll let it happen. They're fat cowards with a head full of US exceptionalism propaganda.
The only thing that might save them is Trump is old and his brain is turning to pure cholesterol. When he dies, that will kill MAGA. Other people will try to fill his shoes, but MAGA is a purely Trump cult. It isn't about ideas, truth, values, or changing anything. It's just praying to an orange pig-god.
MAGA will eventually eat it's own head - and I think it will be bloody and violent against itself.
The only hope is all the damage Trump and MAGA are currently doing can be undone. It will take decades to restore US relations with other countries. You'll need to change how the administration can be held accountable to laws. Fix the supreme court. People (ICE agents, everyone in the admin committing crimes, etc) will need to see the inside of prison cells to prove the "American way" prevails. Without that, there is no reason people won't try again.
If I were a betting person, I would put money on the US fracturing in the next 10 years though. It's too far down the hole now.
I wish you were wrong. Occasionally societies hit huge decision points when something outrageous happens and they have an opportunity to rise together and overcome adversity and become their better selves. And the world looks on with awe and respect.
The US had this opportunity after Columbine. And every month or so after for decades. After each outrage to parents and society so horrible you think surely they will act now. But they never do.
That is how you know they don't have what it takes to stand up to authoritarians. If they did they would have done what any decent society would have done years ago. They don't have it sadly. They are waiting for Superman or Captain America to save them. Mythological heroes are the only sort they have now.