The USSR had no history of independent institutions outside of Stalin's power machine, no credible opposition, no regional power centres, and yet it got significantly less worse once Khrushchev took over. The Americans at least have a shot. Let's see if they take it.
Well right now the shot in question is a discfuntional DP that either collaborates with trump or limits itself to passive protestations, while ppl wich for a cardivasculare disease to solve the problem for them. Most of those are white ppl btw. The only group doing actual protests
are immigrants and minorities because they actually understand what's waiting for them, and many are already on the first line of repression.
"The only group doing actual protests are immigrants and minorities" If that is your understanding of the current situation over there, I think there isn't much point in continuing this conversation.
by protesting i mean actually fighting head on police forces, getting weapons to protect themselves etc. you know the initiale point of the second amendement