It’s June 2025, and convicted felon, wannabe best bud of the murderous war criminal Vladimir Putin, Donald J. Trump is once again President—this time as POTUS 47. But this isn’t just another administration. It’s a full-blown national crisis.
Trump has used his second term not to serve the nation, but to seize it. Through executive orders, loyalty tests, and sweeping emergency powers, he has stacked every level of government with MAGA loyalists. His vice president, J.D. Vance, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and even the Cabinet are filled with ideologues who pledge allegiance not to the Constitution, but to Trump himself.
MaGA POTUS Trump's federalized National Guard troops in California, defying the Governor and state leadership. He’s had a judge arrested. The GOP has stacked federal courts and the Supreme Court with Federalist Society–approved judges and justices. What began as a fringe movement with the Tea Party—and even earlier, during the Reagan era—has metastasized through QAnon and MAGA, infecting nearly a quarter of our least informed and most easily manipulated citizens.
As @magixarc.bsky.social put it at Substack:
So this is purposeful... what?
Not enforcement—authoritarian control through fear and defiance of law.
Wouldn’t it be ironic—if not tragic—if Trump finally launched the coup so many feared in his first term? Imagine: federalizing troops in California, arresting judges who resist, attempting to shut down dissent under the guise of national security.
But then, in this hypothetical, it all backfires, blows up in Trump's face. The institutions Trump tried to weaponize for his autocratic ambitions turn against him. He’s removed from office. Vance, gone. Johnson, ousted. And in the wake of that collapse, the MAGA infection in Congress and across our government is finally purged.
It’s a fantasy (saving America at this point), but...) yes—but and also a warning. On the other hand...
Because right now, this is the reality: Trump has done what Vladimir Putin could only dream of—undermined American democracy from within. The presidency, the line of succession, the courts, and federal agencies have all been packed with political operatives who care more about loyalty than law. The Presidential Succession Act—once a guardrail against instability—now reads like a roadmap to deeper authoritarian rule.
If a crisis struck today, if leadership were suddenly incapacitated, we wouldn’t be comforted by the line of succession. We’d be horrified. One MAGA loyalist after another would step up, each more emboldened and extreme than the last. And contrary to popular belief, Minority Leaders in Congress don’t automatically rise in such scenarios. The process demands action from within a broken system already compromised by those who broke it.
This isn’t paranoia—it’s happening. We are in a slow-motion constitutional collapse.
The question isn’t just: what if Trump attempts a coup?
The question is: what if he already has—and it’s just wearing a suit and carrying a Bible?
We don’t need to imagine a coup anymore. We’re living in the consequences of one. And if America wants to survive it, we need to stop waiting for the breaking point and start recognizing we’ve already crossed it.
The coup isn’t coming—it’s here.
But so are we. And we are not done. Authoritarianism feeds on silence, on fear, on the lie that nothing can be done. But democracy doesn’t die in a moment—it dies when we stop fighting for it. And it lives again the moment we rise. Empires fall in silence; republics rise in chorus. Though the shadows stretch long across our nation, they exist only where light still burns. If we speak, act, and stand together—not tomorrow, but now—we can still pull this country back from the brink.
The dawn hasn’t left us. We must rise to meet it.
Compiled with aid of ChatGPT
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