Remember all those people that voted for Trump because they wanted to burn it all down? This is what the fire looks like.
I don’t see how the country recovers from it either given the spinelessness shown by Democrats in the face of a national emergency.
We now know the only thing preventing the total corruption of the executive branch is the good will of the president. After Congress failed to act people hoped the courts would step in to enforce the law but they have been corrupted as well. Just look at the census and gerrymandering cases - SCOTUS endorsed the idea of rigging elections so your political opposition can never gain power and the only thing that stopped the census rigging was the Chief Justice saying Trump needed to come up with a more credible lie. (The other 4 conservatives thought transparent lies were just fine) Even given that Trump looks to simply ignore SCOTUS anyway and if he does, who will stop him?
The system of checks and balances is dead.
