A1: if he wins the nom, which I’m not convinced he will, the uniparty throws its support behind piaps. Probably a unity ticket of some sort. If by some miracle DT is elected then he’ll be sandbagged from minute one. CONgress, the courts, the media, and the bureaucracy. Upshot, he gets nowhere.
A2: on the pessimistic side, tyranny. But I’m not a pessimist. I think that the same forces that are pushing us toward self governance continue. So we end up self governing.