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What every pardon defender said will happen, did happen. Trump and the DoJ are going after everyone they can. If Biden hadn't pardoned Hunter, the J6 comitee and others, they would have been indicted too.

In retrospect, Biden did the correct thing.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-bondi-director-patel-statements-regarding-indictment-former-fbi-director

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-statements-regarding-indictment-former-national-security-advisor-john

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/new-york-state-attorney-general-indicted

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It’s definitely possible that this will continue across multiple generations. However, far more tyrannical governments have completely fallen apart after a couple of years, and it rarely goes well for those who had power in that time.

Regarding North Korea, yes they’ve had over 75 years of tyrannical autocracy, but that wasn’t in a vacuum. They have been largely dependent on first the Soviet Union, and now China; without those countries backing them up, they would have collapsed long ago. And Kim Il Sung specifically worked to create deification for his bloodline to consolidate power within his family; Trump so far has not been successful in doing the same, and so far nobody else has been able to match his cult of personality. As with many dictatorships throughout history, when the figurehead is gone, the regime starts to crumble.

I do take issue with your implication that hoping the regime will end is delusional. If we accept that we’ve already lost, what’s the point of fighting back? I do genuinely believe that this will end sooner rather than later, not out of delusion, but because so many people are fighting back against the administration and its goals without giving up. Even where I live, in one of the most conservative states in the country, there are tens of thousands of people who have turned out for protests and rallies. There have been ongoing daily protests, and even the conservatives I work with are upset about what’s happening.

We’ve been in such incredibly dark places before as a country, and we’ve made it out because people refused to give up. I refuse to assume this is inevitable, and I refuse to give up on working towards something better.