Can I go a different direction?

First, footnote 2 is objectively funny AND cautiously well-written.

Okay, here go: last night a trusted friend and I were talk about (gestures wildly) all this, and my normally moderate friend was basically planning for life in Nazi America. It was a shocking conversation. But with the Supreme Court essentially saying, the (conservative) Chief Executive is unshackled from norms and laws like the rest of us subjects, nothing stops him and his newly designated VP from genuinely turning our constitutional republic into something else.

Now, I've sworn to uphold the old republic, but what do I owe this new creation? But the conversation was truly darker than anything I've ever heard from my friend, and I was shocked. However, I'm detecting a bit a vibe shift in elite media right now, sort of "well actually, it won't be that bad." As evidenced by this: theatlantic.com/politic… and the widely reported comments from off the record Democrats resigned to a second presidential term.

And yet, and yet, just today JVL quote JD Vance and his plans for mid-level bureaucrats. I AM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE! Is my country and job going to ask me for a loyalty pledge to, not the constitution and Republic, but to the man? If so... well, I'll keep next steps to myself, but the tyranny that the MAGA-set had been complaining about will have arrived for real.