Another parallel: park rangers play a role in the resistance.

Except in the show they were too incompetent to do any real damage. In the actual world, they’re incompetent and extremely effective.

It should be clear that the Trump administration has no interest in protecting disabled people. (Granted, it should have been clear back in 2015!)

All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion.

The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for, someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling shots.

At that point, something will crack.

Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

[M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported.