Americans are already struggling, due to inflation and housing shortages, and it's likely to get worse as people like Musk scheme for ways to vacuum up more cash by cutting services to the public.

I keep thinking they will kick back into life, but they actually seem to be getting worse.

"As the junta loses control, their brutality increases. It's getting worse. The loss of life… the brutality, the torture as they lose ground, literally and figuratively," says UN special rapporteur Tom Andrews.

“Everything is getting worse, fast — and instead of stopping it, the billionaire class has the pedal to the floor,” Kalmus said.

Rather than going away after the next election in February, that problem is likely to get worse.