On February 27, 1933, less than a month after Adolph Hitler had assumed power in Nazi Germany, a communist named Marinus van der Lubbe allegedly set fire to the Reichstag in Berlin. The Reichstag is/was the rough equivalent of the British House of Commons or our own House of Representatives. The following is from Wikipedia.
The day after the fire Hitler asked for and received from President Hindenburg the Reichstag Fire Decree, signed into law by Hindenburg using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, the secrecy of the post and telephone. These rights were not reinstated during Nazi reign. The decree was used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause. Despite the fact that Marinus van der Lubbe claimed to have acted alone in the Reichstag fire, Hitler, after having obtained his emergency powers, announced that it was the start of a Communist plot to take over Germany. Nazi newspapers blared this "news". This sent the Germans into a panic...
Personally I have no doubt whatsoever that the Trump administration will do something similar within 6 months of his inauguration. I think it will be false flag attack orchestrated by the RNC, some mentally ill person will be convinced that there is some plot to take away firearms, and he will attack some GOP office. Of course he will have a fake Facebook page, Twitter feed, etc etc that will link him to the Democratic Party and to Black Lives Matter.
At which point martial law is proclaimed to “protect all of us”. And 227 years of democracy in the United States ends.
OK, kind of sketchy. SO, take your best shot.
What will our version of the “Reichstag Fire” be?