These Times.

Our disturbed head of state is sending federal mercenaries to liberal governed states, and cities to "restore order" As he expected this has great popularity with his base. 

Reading their posts they support shoot to kill orders. 
At this time in our history 40% of Americans are voicing support for shooting en masse in the streets other Americans. This with our head of state cheering them on.

Our head of state further threatens to send various regions tens of thousands more mercenaries to suppress disloyalty to his rule.

Simultaneous there are now three New York level COVID disasters in progress at the moment. At our peak  the City...just NYC not the State of New York NYC was seeing 1000+ perish a day from the virus. 
Add the dead, and infected from the state at that time multiply it by three, and you have the Pandemic in our republic on this hot summer night.

The CDC though censored by #45 still said that there may be as many as another 30,000 that's Thirty Thousand dead Americans from the virus in three weeks. About mid-August.

At or near 30,000 people alive tonight will be dead in three weeks.
Most maybe a majority of these might have lived. The New York dead may have lived if we had a rational plan a national plan for containing the virus. 
Most nations in the world did this, and avoided mass infections, and death. We at the national level ignored it. Our head of state still is saying it "...will just vanish...like magic." His exact words then, and now.

This is where we are.

I think we have to plan for what we will do if he is re-elected which he may well be. Given the state of the nation. The suppression of votes the questionable value of polls, and future disturbed behaviors of the head of state.

We need to think about what we will do to save what may be left of this republic. I wish I was being alarmist. I think I'm in fact being moderately cautious.