What shall appear would not be a pure form of Communism, but more on the Chinese Communist version.
Chinese Communism is much more on the order of the National Socialism of the Third Reich, in which FORMS of a parliament and an “elected” head of government exist along with a judiciary totally subservient to both. The existence of stock exchanges and the appearance of capitalism will still be there, but the central government will eventually become majority stockholder in almost all corporations, and the communications will all follow certain prescribed limitations on what can and what cannot be reported, with the reports finagled to put the overall picture in the most favorable light possible.
China would not have to enter the United States at all, as their surrogates shall already be here. Any trade policies that make China at the least disadvantage will be scrapped altogether, and the flow of information will be a most uneven exchange, with small petty things being the only things easily exchanged. The big stuff, the real research, will continue to be on separate tracks between the former United States of America and the Chinese Communist hegemony, and there will continue to be tensions far into the future, as the two entities struggle to gain or hold supremacy.
All without actual engagement of the uniformed military services at all. That does not mean there would not be considerable bloodshed, but it will be from domestic strife, not foreign encounters.
That does not mean there would not be considerable bloodshed, but it will be from domestic strife, not foreign encounters.
As a given, in the practice of communist/totalitarian regimes, patriots defending the "fundamentally flawed" Constitution will be described as "criminals", "thugs", "reactionaries", etc. Just as today many should be ashamed of being white or "privileged". (/snort)