The road block will come if Elon actually starts messing with real money (especially stuff that flows to red districts and constituencies).
Even if you assume they’d give him a pass on shutting down the DOE and converting it to block grants, I have no doubt that he’d get a ton of pushback if he tried to take a big bite out of defense or farm subsidies or something like that. There is a line, I’m just not sure where it is (and I know I don’t like the answer)
The fascist authoritarian thing that is guaranteed to happen because there will be no political consequence is the actual weaponization of the DOJ against the GOP’s past and potential enemies.
Civil war won’t happen because liberals won’t fight. Authoritarian takeover is a real risk. The escape route there is that they may not be competent enough to do it.
Neither side is engaging in an actual war. Look at how fast the insurrectionists scattered once that girl was shot. No one is sacrificing their livelihood because they mad eggs are expensive.
One thing about Trump and Elon that boggles me is they both seem to generally want acceptance and adoration yet they continie to be villains. Like Trump could conceivably give us a great Healthcare plan, help the climate, raise minimum wage, etc, while still funneling billions to himself and his corporations through various means and playing a shit ton of golf and his popularity would soar. Hell I’d vote for the fuckin guy if he was enacting a bunch of progressive policies and his worst actions were grifting and fraud. Same with Elon. He could do a bunch of awesome shit and be liked by so many more and still be the richest guy in the world but instead we got this fucking dork maga idiot. Like he could actually be the Tony Stark guy but instead he’s Justin Hammer, the Sam Rockwell character from Iron Man 2. Fuck
I’ll be happy to lead The Resistance, but I’ll need a little help from you guys. So here’s what we do: You guys make some signage - “From the River to the Sea!” “U.S. out of my Uterus!” “Kill Whitey!” Stuff like that. Let your creative juices flow. You want rainbow colors or glitter or something do it. Just be yourselves my precious angels. Then we’ll meet at Mar-A-Lago. You folks wave your signs and scream for all you’re worth. Try to make the veins in your foreheads bulge ominously if you can. While you’ve got security and the Secret Service distracted I’ll sneak in the back way, let myself into the locker room and shit in Trump’s hat. IN HIS HAT!!! This is gonna work.
I know that most federal workers voted for Kamala but you know there’s probably a good chunk of Trump voters who are gonna get axed who thought “I’m one of the good ones, there’s no way Trump will get rid of my job”