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Yah I know what you're talking about and I think you're lost in the sauce also, this isn't happening anytime soon. It may happen, but a lot more has to happen beforehand.
You may be confused, I am not saying "everything is going to be okay", in fact what I'm saying is far, far worse which is that, right now if we lost election integrity entirely and the electoral process was supplanted or compromised, we would have a lot of protests, but then nothing would happen. We don't have any organization, we never even got anything from BLM, No Kings or the recent wave of national protests about ICE. Nothing changes until the majority of comfortable Americans start getting uncomfortable enough that they are willing to sacrifice everything, that is when armies start forming, state militias, and rhetoric of secession.
That would be an inevitable consequence of destabilizing democracy, but the big force here is still the biggest force, that the US is a slow turning boat and companies, the corporations who run the country, are not going to accept anything that rapidly hurts their bottom line, so none of this happens over a timespan less than decades.