SEVENTH: Election comes, run puppet POTUS and VP candidates, ride the wartime wave to a R victory. Trump becomes speaker in new Congress. Day after inauguration, POTUS and VP resign and Trump assumes office.

Now let's see how much of this plays out...

4/4 fin.

FIFTH: Stoke a foreign war to heighten tribal alignment: "You're either with the President or against him". Crack down on anti-war protesting as a threat to national security. Suggest Dems want to lose war to block Trump.

SIXTH: Roll out wartime oaths for federal employees.

3/4

THIRD: Preemptively delegitimize opposition..."liberals are gonna use Congress and the Courts to do what our enemies want"

FOURTH: De-sensitize the public. Surrogates like Fox float extraordinary measures like Trump becoming speaker after he leaves office.

2/4

He makes them feel smart.

You shine a flashlight at a marble. The marble isn’t quite in the center of the beam. As you focus the flashlight, the beam gets narrower, smaller, and the marble takes up more % of the beam. Then as you continue, the marble crosses outside the beam, bringing the % to 0.