Google Then War
Accelerating the Google antitrust case for political advantage portends more of that before the election. Imagine what else Mr. Trump and his administration will do to leverage government authority to enhance his campaign for re-election, using the White House for a rally a minor albeit test example.
In the worst case, war powers could be invoked, say, by intervening in the China Taiwan imbroglio, or another showdown with Iran, or in Syria, where the Navy was ordered to bluster defiance with show of force.
In a lesser abuse of executive power there could be ratcheting up of police, national guard, border patrol, marshals and unclear other armed forces municipal intervention (aka law and order), could accelerate and expand, as with the DoJ's Legend proliferation.
A diabolical abuse could be contained in the enforced return to school and re-opening of business despite adverse spreading of Covid and multiplication of deaths.
All this has been projected in the media and that may have induced a normalization of whatever is promulgated, financed and executive-ordered, buttressed by Supreme Court slapdown of lawsuit opposition, and by passing congressional oversight.
When so much power resides in the presidency, once considered to be balanced by the other branches, it is hard to envision what the citizenry could do to prevent these aggressions.
No military, police, justice, DHS, courts, congress, is there any way to oppose this autocracy. Popular uprising, nope, anarchism to be banned.