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I agree, I think it's a matter of a very short time before we all understand that the judicial branch is powerless against him, or I should say him combined with the Repub party which collaborates with him.
Either he'll be stopped by political power of the opposition (if an effective one can be exercised), or violence like a civil war or coup, or else he won't be stopped at all. Judging by how similar things are and have been happening in other countries, this feels like some kind of widespread shift away from a relatively short-lived period of democracy and back to the more usual systems of autocratic/oligarchic rule. But hey, it ain't over yet so we should at least try to save what we've got.
I'm old too, so I don't know how much help I can give to the younger people who will be the ones living long-term in whatever comes next. Good luck on your side of pond.
Cheers friend! My hope lies in the decency of most people - yes, we are told that humans will readily do evil e.g. will hurt others if ordered to do so by an authority figure in a white coat (a classic experiment I vaguely recall from somewhere). But what gets missed is that there are always some people who refuse the first time, and if those who get fooled once realise what happened they are harder to fool a second time, which means we humans are fallible but we tend to fail towards becoming older, wiser. In brief, we can learn to do better. That is our strength. That's how we survive.