best I should reasonably expect to see in my lifetime is fascist, reactionary balkanization of the U.S. over absolute fucking nonsense

This, but I think the coastal areas will arc toward social democracy if that happens. The process between here and there would be violent and fashy like you said. Many areas of north America will remain violent and fashy until they peter out and/or make it everyone else’s problem along the way. Obviously for those are in a particularly fashy area without the ability to leave it might get fucked up.

I’m curious to know if SWCC will lay the foundation to a new socialist global order made up of the global south over the next several decades. If there is a socdem US or balkanized socdem republics of the former US, they could make up the right wing of the new socialist order (there will be lib shit ever more, but the only thing less sustainable than a liberal economy is outright fascism).