Per the scenario put forth by
@Skallagrim up-thread, I think I’ve come up with an interpretation for the tyrant to come, should such a future indeed materialize. While it’s probably futile to pin down his (or maybe
her) exact name, maybe for the purposes of discussion, calling them something like ‘Jack Dammer’ sounds appropriate to me, given both his unparalleled depravity and the symbolism of his last name (i.e. its resemblance to the word
damn or
damned).
Going by what’s been predicted about him so far, I more or less envision him as this terrifying, borderline ridiculous combination of Goge Vandire from Warhammer 40K and the Lesser Mao from AH.com’s
Fear, Loathing, and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail ’72. That is, a supremely deranged, incredibly egotistical
omnicidal maniac who pretends to be the populist messiah shortly after seizing power…and goes completely bonkers after annihilating his opposition and establishing a proper foothold in his conquests abroad. Endless blood purges, public executions, industrialized death camps modeled after those of Nazi Germany’s, routine “cullings” every two seconds that wipe out millions of people at a time, and war crimes that’d make even Imperial Japan shudder. First-resort nuclear strikes, weaponizing bubonic plague and other cataclysmic diseases, an institutionalized doctrine of appointing the world’s worst psychopaths to “take care of” any remaining survivors, turning on anyone and everyone other than himself on a dime out of an insatiable thirst for blood, and so on and so forth. In short, imagine Dammer’s America as the nightmarish three-way lovechild of a Third Reich that wins WW2 and successfully subjugates European Russia, North Korea writ large, and the more bloodthirsty tendencies of the Khmer Rouge (minus its sheer anti-modernism), and that more or less sums up how I’d personally characterize worst-case neo-Caesar. If
@Skallagrim predicts a self-destructive terror regime more horrific than anything we’ve ever seen before, Dammer’s America is probably it.