I actually think Willard will win the general. The People will have handed the reins of this oppressive, overgrown government and nascent police state to the culture of death statist who is smarter, more diligent and better organized. There will be consequences to the elevation of the clean living ‘lesser evil’ Diocletian over the debauched and fading Nero.
If so we may buy ourselves some more time, but if we are too stupid to recognize what needs to be done to pull the country back from the brink then more time won’t really make much difference anyway. It is our own stupidity and complacency that will kill this nation - either now or later.