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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
This is a distinct possibility in the future. Now that doesn't mean that Trump will be the one. In fact it's incredibly unlikely that he will. He is too stupid and lazy to pull off something like that.
However, the precedents he and his administration are setting are only going to offer rationalizations for future politicians to push the envelope even further than Trump and his cronies have. Trump is merely loosening the bolts of demcoracy for a future leader to destroy. By the time the damage is something that can be noticed by the average person, it will be too late to undo any of it. At that point, the only option available is a revolution.
If you want to argue that Trump is slowly undermining democratic norms in such a way that the probability of the US falling into authoritarianism in the next few decades is somewhat higher, then I don't really disagree.
However, if you genuinely think that it's a worthwhile use of your time (in an instrumental way, not like a "haha how would you prepare for a zombie apocalypse" kind of way) to have a plan to move before Eternal Leader Trump sends you to a concentration camp, then you really are just as deluded as any other doomsday prepper.
Even if your fears were totally justified and Trump managed to turn the US into a clone of Putin's Russia, Putin isn't sending random internet forum posters to the Gulag or preventing them from leaving Russia. To be in genuine danger as a random citizen the US would have to become a totalitarian police state like North Korea, and if that happened, nowhere else in the world would be safe anyway.