12-09-2016, 10:21 AM
More likely the Trump Administration would consent to some of the urban areas most hostile to him in voting and polling to become the equivalent of 'special economic zones' that might have a little autonomy and some freedoms not permitted in the 'Real America'. Access between them might be easier than access to and from the more rural hinterland. This would imply a breakup of the state structure and the federal system -- but dictatorial rulers generally prove hostile to any semblance of federalism. But note that it would be such areas as the San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Los Angeles, Greater San Diego, Monterrey-Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, and perhaps Sacramento might be relatively free, with some academic and cultural freedom and even some tolerance for liberal politics. Outside these zone the repression would be harsh.
The electoral system would have to change, but the votes for president would be reliably be about 55-45 R, the Senate would be about 55-45 R -- likewise the House. Elsewhere Chicago and its Indiana suburbs might be free while fairly-close-by Champaign, Illinois might not be. Have a protest at the University of Illinois (Champaign) and you get to have a career milking cows after a prison term complete with savage beatings. Rural America would be the zone of farming, lumbering, mining, and sweatshop factories.
The electoral system would have to change, but the votes for president would be reliably be about 55-45 R, the Senate would be about 55-45 R -- likewise the House. Elsewhere Chicago and its Indiana suburbs might be free while fairly-close-by Champaign, Illinois might not be. Have a protest at the University of Illinois (Champaign) and you get to have a career milking cows after a prison term complete with savage beatings. Rural America would be the zone of farming, lumbering, mining, and sweatshop factories.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.