What is your greatest fear of a Trump presidency?

[RandySF]

Mine: He will use his leverage as president to professionally blacklist anyone who dares speak out against him.

[hueymahl]

1. That he will successfully implement any meaningful percentage of his policies

Because if he does, especially internationally, we are headed for a world of hurt, and possibly war.

[Zambero]

2. Inability to handle or resolve a crisis

And being a primary architect in creating one (or more).

[Mike B]

3. Greatest fear is....

...that he will be re-elected.

[JenniferJuniper]

4. The permanent end of the Republic

[Lint Head]

5. If he takes office the USA is over. Dead. Gone.

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

6. that the nukes won't result in total destruction

I don't wanna go through all that nuclear winter and radiation zombie shit

[raccoon]

36. Who was it said, after the next war the survivors will envy the dead? nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. That all enviromental laws and social safety net programs will be repealed or seriously weakened.

[CrispyQ]

8. Posters 4 & 5 speak for me. -nt

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Greatest? Pretty much all of them.

[Jamaal510]

10. Nuclear warfare

and a 9/11-esque attack in one of more major U.S. cities.

[doc03]

11. That he somehow gets sworn in before he gets impeached nt

[Charles Bukowski]

12. Realistically

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A reborn Soviet Union
War in Iran
A severing of diplomatic relations with China

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. War with China over Taiwan

He's just itching to use his new powers to prove how manly he is.

[Starry Messenger]

13. Everything

[marlakay]

14. Destroy environment

Ruin Medicare and Social Security, start wars both around the world and across the states.

Come after you if you speak up against him. No choice, no decent school system.

So many fears I can't pick just one.

[rwheeler31]

15. That young people will think he is an acceptable leader,

and follow his example.

[Sunlei]

16. To watch Republicans & their emboldened 'fans' ride roughshod over anyone they 'dislike'

last couple years of republicans screaming at busses of kid refugees and the 'for profit' detention prisons refugees are held in today, the 'for profit prisons who pay corporate workers 20 cents an hour- are just a taste of what's to come soon.

[Behind the Aegis]

17. That I will lose my marriage.

I also fear women will lose the right to choose.
I fear an increase in hate crimes and people getting away with it.

[demon in basement]

18. the fact that Trump will be president

Is this some kind of trick question?

[TygrBright]

19. The end of democracy. n/t

[Adsos Letter]

20. That the religious zealots will influence him to move the country toward theocracy.

[pnwest]

21. That the sheep will win and allow

him, and ALL the destruction he will bring about, to just be the new normal.

[Basic LA]

23. That he'll be elevated to god-status like Reagan

Instead of getting kicked out like Nixon.

[Solly Mack]

24. That people will remain silent or pretend not to see.

That's my primary fear going forward.

[Pachamama]

25. Racism & hate crimes, police state, destruction of environment, economic chaos & all of the above

Nuclear warfare

[bravenak]

26. Lynchings

[ChoppinBroccoli]

27. Ever See The Movie, "The Road"?

That. Or any other of the "post-apocalyptic" movies that have come out over the years. That those will become our new reality thanks to a Trump temper tantrum.

[madamesilverspurs]

28. The world will look at us

and laugh, we will be seen as nothing more than a bunch of self-indulgent suckers, unreliable for anything but failing to appreciate the nation we are throwing away. My boomer generation is already diminishing, we won't be here to see the worst consequences; those things will happen to our kids and grandchildren; our great-grandkids will be adults before the nation climbs out of the pit Trump and the republicans will create.

[TeamPooka]

29. Massive unemployment. War with Iran. China invades Taiwan. Russian military action in Europe

a systematic looting of our Treasury, public lands sold off for a song, massive voter suppression, the rounding up of Muslims, Mexicans and eventually, Jews (they always make the list), pay for play corruption that makes the Teapot Dome scandal look like a church bake sale.
And the American people, especially Republicans and their representatives, will go along with it all without a single word of opposition.

[gwheezie]

30. Fascism with all its repercussions

It will be open season on PoC & women. There will be no legal recourse & we will have to fight & die.
It's been happening since the founding & we had a brief simmering of the violent nature in this country but the black president caused the fever to flare up, they are going mad with it.
We have a huge military & lots of money so no matter what deranged foreign policy trump comes up with, we will get through it. But what do we do if Trump fuels the fire here & we find out the fighting in the street we've witnessed so far are just skirmishes leading to the bigger war?

[patricia92243]

31. Wars and Supreme Court Justices he appoints.

[blue cat]

32. War

[Jim__]

33. Nuclear war. - n/t

[jmowreader]

34. Empowerment of bullies

I think we're all in agreement the guy is a thug. The problem is, his thuggishness is starting to rub off on children. And exactly how are we supposed to present antibullying education with a straight face when the worst bully in America got elected president of the United States a month ago?

[mnhtnbb]

35. How do you pick just one? People have put up a great list here.

The guy is a total disaster waiting to happen for the country and the world.

I suppose nuclear war is at the top of the list, but other fears have greater certainty, and foremost
among them is the rise of fascism as the form of government in a country that will have once been
fondly known as a democracy to be envied around the world.

[Norbert]

37. Internment camp or execution

for failure to acknowledge him as my supreme leader or to mindlessly follow his orders.

Mind you, I don't think this will happen but the fact that I could suggest that it could ever happen it very troubling.

[MrScorpio]

38. Fears? None.

Realization that we're collectively doomed? Absolutely.

We need to plan the next stage. I don't have time for fear.