What Comes After America?

You’re not going to like what comes after America. — Leonard Cohen

I have argued that an enormous violent crisis is coming to America, since there has been no reckoning with or accountability for the dictator and his fascist irregulars who sacked the Capitol on January 6. It was an almost successful attempt to violently overthrow the U.S. republican regime enshrined in the Constitution (many of the central provisions of which, such as the Congressional power to make war, have been dead letters for decades). Emboldened, these forces will try again, whether under the leadership of the dictator or not, and I am far from the only one who thinks they will be much better organized next time. In fact, they are already laying the quasi-legal groundwork in many “red states” to nullify election results in 2022 and 2024 that are not to their liking.

So, what comes next after this terminal crisis? Not having prophetic powers, there is no way I can say. I do feel safe in saying, with the late Leonard Cohen, that no one with any decency is going to like it — and not a few “indecent” folks won’t care for it, either. In the same way, I was one of the “alarmists” who foresaw a mortal threat to the American republic, along with massive loss of life, from the dictator’s election in November 2016. We were mocked and scorned at the time. There was no way that I or anybody else could have…