I have a cynical and pessimistic view of people's future in the US.

Revolution isn't going to manifest from a disillusionment from both major political parties, ICE crackdowns, or the facade of liberal democracy unraveling before our eyes. In Chris Hedges' book from 2012, Wages of Rebellion, he states a belief that the ruling ideology of neoliberalism is discredited but there is no ideology or course of action to take its place, calling this period an interregnum. A period between ideologies.

As long as cheap goods and easy credit exist for Americans to draw their sustenance from, even as they face increasing financial distress, the status quo will remain the same but with a degrading and tenuous political legitimacy and subsequent increase in stochastic terrorism and mass violence. Stable, but "enshittified".

There are mechanisms in the US Constitution and legal system to hold the power elites connected with Epstein accountable, but the rule of law has long been a farce. This was clearly illustrated when the Center for Constitutional Rights sued the Biden admin for complicity in the Gaza genocide when the courts acknowledged the possibility of genocide by Israel & US complicity but denied their own ability to check the power of the US executive in regards to foreign policy. The law favored the CCR but the courts favored power.

Strikes, work stoppages, blocking ports of air and sea, and protests are the only mechanisms available and the government seems content and willing to just let it come to an exchange of violence - and the state is better at violence in toleration and execution than the masses of ordinary people.

I agree with your tl'dr but I don't hold out hope for Americans as a revolutionary body or persons in mass distress to be disillusioned from the Democrats enough to engage in mass movement to compel the reformation of a 21st century New Deal.