If 2024 is set to be tumultuous and unpredictable, just wait until 2025 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again this year.

His adversaries don’t have a history of accepting his victories with equanimity.

Trump’s opponents are sincerely, and to some extent understandably, alarmed by his conduct after the 2020 election and how he’s branded his political comeback a revenge tour.

For most of them, though, saving democracy doesn’t mean upholding the rules no matter what and letting the voters decide the election and the next president.

Democrats could have fielded better candidates.  Biden is a feeble dotard and Harris is a diversity hire.  Bernie Sanders was boxed out in 2020 and so was JFK Jr. for 2024.  The Democrats could have attempted to govern in a responsible manner, but instead, they have indulged their worst policies and punished Donald Trump any way they can.

It’s hard to imagine what’s more extreme than one side in our politics indicting its leading opponent, creating the real prospect of jailing him in the months before an election and excluding him from the ballot in select states.

Yet if Trump wins, we have to assume this is only a taste of things to come.

Corporate media has talked about a civil war, in a theoretical manner, since 2016.  It may happen, but not in the manner they presume.

It’s difficult to imagine the current political climate continuing or degrading further.  If it must happen, most Americans would prefer to get it over with.