countries don't just pull themselves out of this by having better election results. there's going to be more violence and death, possibly for decades.

or not, maybe. The one thing we have going for us that Italy and Spain and Germany and Portugal (they had a peaceful revolution against fascism - but it took decades and they still understood it as a revolution that destroyed something old and created something new, not as liberal reform) is that Trump is super old and maintaining a fascist grip on a country *while* managing a power transition sounds pretty hard. even trying to set up the baby Trumps as heirs is going to require some level of normal politics to present them as fit to govern.