Comment by tadrinth on 26/11/2024 at 23:38 UTC*

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Trump and his allies have fantasies about invoking the Insurrection Act to use the army to put down protestors, or as an excuse to create a militia under Trump's direct control. I'm not sure the prospect of civil unrest is sufficient incentive to keep them from doing things.

They are quite good at frog boiling, so I don't actually expect them to open with an immediate dismantling or anything like that, but I think having high confidence that we get through the next four years with zero impact to social security at all is overconfident.

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