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The worst impact of this debacle will be outside the USA. This will be taken as a green light for strongman politics everywhere. Including here in Europe where that sort of thing has ended very badly in the past.
You Americans really have behaved like spoiled children. Whatever the leftist fringe here thinks, the American constitution is the envy of the world. You're on the same electoral calendar since the 1780s, without a single interruption. For literally centuries your leaders would follow the rules, shake hands and leave office when their time was up. Over and over again. It's an incredible achievement, it was the template for a successful democracy.
And then this ogre came along and broke it all, and you decadently voted him back in.
IMO America's institutions will contain the damage, probably. But other countries will inevitably now follow the example of America's voters. And for some of them that's going to turn out less well.
Maybe our coming turmoil will similarly be a much-needed warning for others to resist such movements and treat disinformation with more seriousness before it corrupts their people.
Yes and that's the sad paradox. America's interest is now (at least temporarily) at odds with the interests of freedom and democracy. Trump's abuses cannot be seen to pay.