President Cotton was frustrated. Having been elected by a tiny Electoral College margin (and without a popular majority) in 2024, he was determined to deliver the goods to his faithful Reactionary and PBP supporters, but the Democratic House rejected his agenda out of hand. Building on the precedents established in the Trump years, he signed executive orders directing the IRS not to collect capital gains tax and prohibiting DOJ from enforcing any civil rights laws, which he described as “immoral” and an “offense against God.”
The Democrats took legal action, but the Supreme Court viewed it as a political question and refused to intervene. Impeachment was out of the question, given Cotton’s support in both houses. There was no effective legal remedy for the obvious usurpation of power.
Protests broke out in most major American cities. It was the provocation that Cotton had been waiting for since 2020. He had already replaced the leaders of the military with men he knew he could trust to protect his interests over those of the country. He consequently sent the military to squelch the protests with orders to use overwhelming force. There were hundreds of casualties, but the protests ended. Fox News rejoiced.
Attorney General Barr, brought out of retirement just for this kind of event, announced that the government would use emergency powers to censor the MSM and the internet in order to prevent any new protests. Prominent Democrats, including members of Congress, who had supported the protests were arrested and held indefinitely without charge. New reactionary social legislation was adopted by presidential decree. Opponents of the regime learned to keep quiet. America had turned into Hungary, or even Hong Kong.