You pretty much nailed it. I can't even get outraged at any given instance now that the trendline is so staggeringly clear.

I can't see anyway this ends well for the US. I say this as both an American and a military veteran.

Never in history has an authoritarian ceded power without massive violence.

	▲	tokai 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The dissolution of the USSR was not massively violent. Frederick VII of Denmark, an absolute monarch, introduced parliamentarism without any violence or even broad public pressure. And thats just what I can remember without digging.