Who knows? Where I live, I haven't had a national vote that counted for a quarter century now. Recently, even local elections are mostly for show. A few places on my ballot last time had only two Democrats for California offices. This trend will increase.
This thread has been very instructive. The idea that this current conflict is unprecedented is apparently unassailable.
So is the idea that the current opposition to the Democrats presents an equally-unprecedented clear and present danger to the nation, if not the economy of the whole planet.
Republicans, in the national debate, are "terrorists," "arsonists," "anarchists," and worse. Much worse. Hell, I'm just a guy in a garage, and you can see what I'm being called on this board. Half this thread alone is incoherent, furious raving.
The other shoe in this country hasn't dropped yet, but sometimes I think it's hanging by a lace.
"This time, the elephant must go down. And if possible, it must be so wounded it does not get up for a long time to come." - Andrew Sullivan