I typically don’t like US politics because it’s all shitting on somebody’s head but this is an acceptable question because it can be interpreted in a structural way. Like the river carries water, in an orderly fashion, even though each drop moves chaotically and by common assumption doesn’t even have consciousness, so society moves forward, even though no single person has a plan.

I think that in some sense of the word, things are gonna be ok because life has always found a way, one way or another, and this won’t be different. The question is just what local bubble is gonna make it and what not. About the US politics: I think that governments ultimately derive their power from being useful to society. Just like every major invasion of other countries has failed in decades, so has no tyrannical regime existed forever. There’s always some tradeoff between the ruler being necessary and annoying. Even the “very bad people” (according to newspapers) such as dictators in the third world have a surprising amount of support from the local population because they perform some role, such as holding society together and defending against a (real or imagined) external threat. I think that it’s easy to give in to doomerism, because people are attracted to bad thoughts like the mosquito is attracted to fire, but ultimately the world is on a path of development, and bad rulers can only rule as long as their existence is considered practical. Which won’t be forever.