Swarms of people head to D.C. to “help Trump pack his bags.” Unlike the last time Trump tried to stay in power, the resistance movement is clear about calling it a coup and what the steps are to stop a coup. Hundreds of thousands of people stay in D.C. to “see him out.” All day, Trump hides in the White House trying to coordinate a response.
History rides on some really close calls. According to international observers, the official results were tainted by hundreds of local polling places being manipulated. Despite the manipulation, Trump lost by narrow margins in key states. And when a small bomb went off and injured 20 anti-Trump protestors in D.C., public opinion swung against Trump. But it didn’t displace him. The movement vows to peaceably, but forcibly, escort him out.
Inauguration day brings vicious counter-protests. You feel history could have gone either way. But the resistance movement has given the military all the rationale they need to escort Trump out of office. When confronted with that possibility, Trump very reluctantly walks out of the White House and heads home to Mar-a-Lago.
A new president takes over a battered, bruised nation. Trump is eventually charged with insurrection, but dies before the trial. The Constitutional Convention is able to undo many of his worst measures and tighten up existing laws to avoid such chaotic orders in the future. The movement averted another coup — but just by the skin of its teeth. You feel proud of everything you did to help make this happen.
THE END.
You managed to push out the autocrat! You did not do it alone. Like in real life, many approaches had to work together to get to this point: defending democratic institutions, supporting a vibrant disobedience wing, protecting individuals being targeted, and building alternative visions beyond just “a return to normal.”
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