I'm somewhat familiar with how ground has been prepared for socialist revolutions, historically speaking. It's a multi-step game plan that includes fomenting civil unrest, amplifying state-controlled demagogic media, dissolving of traditional culture and moral standards, increasing the authority of central banks (which happened long ago), setting one social class against another, and advocating for violence against those labeled as oppressors. Angry mobs are weaponized and used as tools to overturn the establishment.
In the end, I don't think such a thing will really come to fruition in the U.S., though a certain more leftist faction of people may advocate for it.
It seems to me that the more liberals and mainstream media follow Trump around and make disparaging remarks and hollow criticisms about literally everything he says and does, the more they appear not to have much of a clear direction of their own--as though their entire identity hinges upon opposing and criticizing Trump, whatever he does.
Initially, I thought Trump was being criticized for being a somewhat boorish, straight-talking business man, in other words, for being crude and uncultured. But now, that seems to have worn off, and the real animosity towards Trump is due to the fact that he represents a more conservative agenda and is bull-headed enough to push it ahead. A decade or more worth of social and political liberalism is being turned back, and leftist ideologies are being exposed in the process.
Sounds pretty reasonable as a general view.
I don't think any seriously big, as in BIG, influential movers and shakers really believe any form of socialism. Use it, sure. Believe it, no.
Some nice little true believers can believe their ideology and/or love it as much as any little old church lady can love her Jesus. But in my experience, most more or less young progressives come from fairly well-to-do families. Their idealism is kinda charming, a sort of rite of passage. Out on their own, with no real financial realities impinging on their personal decisions because dad is paying the tuition. Every school or college has some true believer staff profs or tas because that's a sort of closed culture "cool".
being a true progressive believer doesn't last long, unless the young'un lands a guvmint job. Then it's a lifelong security thing. Gotta run the world right, ya know.
For the rest of us, it wears thin within a decade and we're left licking our wounds so to speak, for all the stupid we've done, for no good reason and no pay.
A socialist coup could happen in the US, but I think it'd be the beginning of the end for all globalist idealism. The fascist regime might stand for a decade though. The world population would have a significant die-out.
But the fact is, socialism just doesn't work. Won't work.
And the contenders for the leadership of it will turn cannibal within their own ranks. There is no stable moral in it. It will always reduce to the fundamental primitive one-man rule with that one man suspicious and ruthless. The ranks of the managers will similarly thin out, and the regime enforcement troops will starve and die.
And the folks who survive will make a new legend of how wrong it all was.
So far, because of some prospering centers of freedom or capitalism, we've managed. Whether we can maintain that critical mass of productivity is the question.
Today, China's Xi is going all Mao and losing his Confucian wisdom. Overextending "Empire" has always proven to have limits for the Chinese. Roughly, once any aggressor has expanded far enough to run outta peacekeeping troops, the natives have pushed the regime back.
