If that were to happen, the laws that govern this nation would need rewritten entirely. The regulations that govern business need rewritten. The foundations of our social contract must be renegotiated.

I don't want to live in a nation populated by Nazis or their supporters. If there is no punishment for them, the nation remains dead permanently. Nazi Germany did not go far enough in punishing the perpetrators. Japan did not go far enough in punishing the perpetrators.

I don't think it is safe for society to allow them to simply duck their heads and be folded back in. These are dangerous, selfish, hateful people who will do everything in their power to undermine society and to teach their children to do so after them for decades after this.

Everything happening now is directly trackable to the civil war and the sabotaged/failed reconstruction that allowed hatred, racism and resentment to fester. It was never dealt with in government, in fact, the government often encouraged it.

I do not want to repeat history. I want a society of people who want to be a part of that society. Not forced into it by exploitation and coercion. I don't want society to be more akin to a back alley mugging where most of us are unable to leave, despite desperately wanting to.

Well yes we're gonna need an entirely new constitution, and because the US is so geographically spread out will probably end up with a few nation states. The US as a nation is dead, we don't knw yet what new nations will arise from the ashes.

Rump is quite old and has health problems, he can’t have many years left. Meanwhile this has all the appearance of a personality cult, with no obvious successors: we can’t afford hope it all falls apart and we can begin to recover