I'm no Leninist, but Lenin had one great insight before Nassem Taleb's book: "there are decades in which no history happens and there are days in which decades of history happen."
We're in the latter, with climate and deinstitutionalizing fascist overreach. The big question is what happens when the Trumpster Muskovites defy/ignore court orders and vandalize the Treasury's 2m lines of code, causing systemic breakdown. Your guess as good as mine. Will the civil servants defy their political appointee Trumpster bosses and follow the court order or vice versa? Again, your guess is as good as mine. When several congressmen and women went to the USAID building the security guard barred their entry. If they present the security guard next week with a court order, what will he do when his boss inside tells him to tell the congresspeople no entry and the congresspeople tell him he's liable to arrest by their accompanying marshall? Will the split between different parts of coercive state power move from marshalls to martial?
The judge ordering the Muskovites out of Treasury referred to "irreparable damage" for a reason.
I'd not bet alot on court orders stopping them:
"I think that what Trump should, like — if I was giving him one piece of advice, [is] fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state,” Vance said at the time. “Replace them with our people. And when the courts — because you will get taken to court — and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
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