We are so fucked.
I expect that early in January, Social Security and Medicare will be privatized in such a way as to be slowly phased out.
“Pre-existing conditions” and “life-time maximums” will again be a things that harm millions of Americans.
Federal support for education (and the Department of Education) will be eliminated. Each state will be “Free!” to indoctrinate the young against the evils of evolution and science.
Federal funding for Energy research and the Department of Energy will go too. But the Interior Department will be kept busy, giving away drilling rights to cronies at parties where toaster ovens are again employed in novel and entertaining ways.
If the EPA survives, it will only be to re-write rules to expand fracking and overlooking industrial pollution.
And on, and on, and on.
The departments which survive will be crippled by people heading them who don't think they should exist. Career civil servants will be replaced (as in the FBI) with partisan zealots.
There's gonna be a legislative blitzkrieg like we've never seen before. Perhaps they'll turn off our Representative's microphones again to save time.
Any moment, one of them will again say that "Reagan proved that 'deficits don't matter' ".
And, if they get unpopular, they'll start a war again and again brand those of us who oppose them as traitors, probably (as they did last time) before we've even spoken out against them.
We're all Fort Lee now, and we'll have to suffer through WAY worse than just “traffic problems”.
We're all New Orleans now, and we'll have to weather WAY worse than Katrina.