If the MAGA regime endured for two decades or more—and most authoritarian regimes do—existing trends toward self-sorting along ideological lines would likely continue or even accelerate. MAGA-minded whites might follow libertarian-leaning “tech bros” and “finance bros” from California and New York to Texas and Florida. College-educated white professionals might migrate in the other direction, leaving suburban Dallas and Orlando for suburban Chicago and Seattle. At this point in the process, argues Never Trump conservative David French, secession scenarios and even civil war would start to
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