Thanks for the new and aptly titled thread!
We're rapidly heading for a totalitarian state, I think. We've got 'disarming' the press, isolating us from right-thinking countries, buddying up to totalitarian regimes, closing off borders, making a specific 'enemy' for the ignorant to focus on, and giving those ignorant the belief that they have the right to attack not only that 'enemy', but to attack anyone who doesn't think as they do. And shortly our civil liberties will start to be legally curtailed. Roe v Wade and Marriage Equality will be the bellwether. I will make the first Godwin's law reference on this thread; this is straight out of Hitler's playbook.
What I DON'T think is that we'll end up with Scrotus as our 'Dear Leader'. I think there are any number of Senators/Congresspersons/Vice Presidents waiting in the wings, content to let him do the dirty work, who will then step in and 'save the country from a dictator' only to become the dictator instead.
DH and I have stashed away enough cash to enable us to easily get our family to the Canadian border with our caravan. We realize that it's only paranoia we hope, but it does make us feel better. Now we just have to hope that Canada doesn't close its border!
We haven't given up the fight, though, and I know others haven't either. We "walk on with hope in our hearts, and we never walk alone".