I share your fear, BirdDancer. And anguish. What is happening right now is tragic and horrifying. Trump is an authoritarian. No different than Erdogan, Putin, Sddm, or Xi. They are all the same. The incinerate human rights, prosecute, imprison, and kill their enemies, and silence the press. He is nothing original.

But, history has very clearly shown us that all authoritarians ultimately fail. The Japanese Empire. Hitler. Stalin. Pol Pot. I could go on all week. Iran and Saudi Arabia? They will totally and absolutel fail. It is just a matter of time.

Human being thirst for freedom of faith and freedom of speech/the press. They will not be denied. Trump and his totalitarian sycophants and pathetic suckups will be destroyed--either peacefully or not remotely peacefully. I hope for the former. And as I have said before, I am a lifelong Republican. Trump is certainly no Republican. He is evil in his moral core.

"The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not," Christopher Hitchens.

Prayers for the United States of America. If he wins, I do believe there will be a civil war. Hope I am wrong.