No, I don’t mean amassing a personal arsenal that would put the local Guard’s to shame, or buying a big as your house armored SUV with tow truck sized winches and gun ports in every door.
What I am talking about is practical preparations for the multi dimensional disaster that a Trump administration will be. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush at least had some experience in governing, Trump can’t even run a business. And don’t expect his Alt-Right staffers to patch things together, they have no successful working model of their fantasy of ultraconservative government mixed with ethnic cleansing to learn from… Unless you consider dictatorships successful.
So for a start, Trump says he will kick at least 3 million of us outa here, without the slightest legal recourse. He promises massive infrastructure spending and massive tax cuts… Somehow this ain’t gonna work. He promises huge tariffs on imports, but fails to mention how the retaliatory tariffs on exports will make farming even more of a losing proposition. He promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act and with it millions of american’s health care, but has yet to detail a replacement. And that’s just what newbie president Trump has proposed… The republicans in congress and lobbyists will have a field day taking advantage of Trump! Remember Ryan’s plan to replace your Medicare with useless vouchers… Consider it law, just a question of whether it will take effect in 2017 or 2018.
And no, the republicans in congress won’t impeach Trump, they’re scared as hell of him. Even taking back congress in 2018 is iffy- It’s an uphill fight in the senate with way more democratic seats to defend than republican seats to take back, and the house is near hopelessly gerrymandered. So we’re probably stuck with Trump crashing the economy, trashing government, and maybe getting into a war or three before we retire him… So we’d best prepare for the worst, and fight for the best.
So I’m throwing open the discussion for suggestions… How best can we prepare to survive Trump and thrive beyond Trump?