Well, with Americans having voted in Trump and Vance, I guess we'll all have a front row seat on Episode 2.
There are many different possible scenarios going forward from here, but here is one:
On January 7, 2025, Trump chokes on a Twinkie and dies while celebrating his inauguration; JD Vance becomes president and wins the 2028 election in a landslide. By 2050, his grandson, JD Vance III, travels to Kiev to marry Princess Anastasia (great-granddaughter of Vladimir Putin) and is anointed Holy Roman Emperor, thus bringing the Roman Catholic (now dominated by the American Evangelical right) and Orthodox branches of Christianity together after millennia apart. By 2100 the sectarian wars between the Empire and various branches of Protestantism have laid waste to most of Western Europe and the US Mid-West, while the Culture Wars are over due to New York having been flooded out by rising sea levels and California having broken off from the mainland and sunk into the Pacific following a series of massive earthquakes. (The tsunami washes up the Fraser as far as Hope, B.C., as well as wreaking havoc in Japan). In Canada in 2124, the Caquistas have joined the Empire and have taken Toronto, where they are enforcing French language laws, but the revived Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CRAP) under descendants of the illegitimate son of Pierre Poilievre and Allison Smith continues to fight back.
Of course this is a relatively positive scenario, it could be much worse.
