It is possible to break things beyond fixing in any stretch of time the Democrats are likely to get. Once the US pulls its military assets from Europe, they're not going back. Once Japan builds its own nukes, they're not going to give them up. He and the Supreme Court are going to drive lots of wedges between the states and the federal government, and between different groups of states. You don't rebuild NOAA or NIST in less than a decade.
It is possible to break things beyond fixing in any stretch of time the Democrats are likely to get. Once the US pulls its military assets from Europe, they're not going back. Once Japan builds its own nukes, they're not going to give them up. He and the Supreme Court are going to drive lots of wedges between the states and the federal government, and between different groups of states. You don't rebuild NOAA or NIST in less than a decade.
Before his minions make the attempt. Plausible deniability, in the sense of "Well, if I had still been there it would have all gone smoothly."