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Last night I watched this incredibly compelling Netflix documentary about the Maidan Revolution in Kiev, Ukraine. The film really illustrates how powerful the in group preference us versus them narrative is. The film shows that you really don't need to get that many angry people together before people (well, men) start deciding that they are willing to die or kill for their group. Like all emotionally compelling films at the end the good guys win. The corrupt President of Ukraine resigns. I've lived in the Ukraine and have heard a bunch of different perspectives on this. I know it's a complicated event that I would do a real disservice to if I tried to meta analyze. As I watched the film I thought about how mobs of millions of liberal idiots in the US who think that Trump is literally Hitler would watch a film like this be all the more inspired to take action that is going to escalate into violence. Anytime I see an interview with these anti-Trump protesters they seem pretty convinced that they are fighting an evil dictator. Luckily Trump protesters seem to be mostly wimpy SJWs; high estrogen beta males and fat girls - nothing like the stoic Ukrainians that occupied Maidan square for months in the freezing winter. Perhaps the scariest difference is that the Maidan revolution was a bunch of white Ukrainians beating up a bunch of other white Ukrainians; same race and language - whereas, especially in major US cities, there are three very distinct racial groups that ideologically divide pretty consistently down racial lines. The US is just looking more and more like Yugoslavia in the late 1980's. It seems to me that there are three possible outcomes a) Trump is really tough on the protesters which produces a bunch of viral videos of scenes reminiscent of Winter on Fire; which inspire a bunch more crazing liberals to get involved. The race war intensifies. b) Trump is weak on the protesters. Maybe he even panders to them like Obama has. He let's them burn down their own cities. c) Trump trolls the protesters. He just makes fun of them on Twitter for being fat and wimpy. The protesters get demotivated and go back to their lives. I'm hoping for C but I fear A is a much more likely scenario. What do you think is more likely?