Thank you for this insightful essay; your linkage to the 1930s is poignant. I think most of your predictions are spot on.

I provide one on one emigration consulting for people seeking to leave the US, specifically moving with a conscientious lens and approach to global and local impact. My clients are concerned about not only being able to live in peace and safety, but to pursue and nurture those values of integrity, intellectual honesty, inclusivity, cooperation in their lives and communities. It is, in my opinion, the best of us and the US's loss. I appreciate the reframe of emigration as a form of resistance. Similarly, but more from a personal vs. systemic perspective, I think about it as a setting of boundaries - a refusal to continue being in an abusive relationship.

The difference now, of course, is the immediate online access and for some emigrants (like me) still being economically reliant on sources of US income is a necessity, at least to start. Your points are well taken, though. Thank you for writing!

Check out The Conscientious Emigrant, as well!