I think this Trumpian coup cannot be stopped by legal means now that Trump views himself as above all law and thinks his executive orders amount to regal degrees from an absolute monarch.

I agree, I think it’s a matter of a very short time before we all understand that the judicial branch is powerless against him, or I should say him combined with the Repub party which collaborates with him.

Either he’ll be stopped by political power of the opposition (if an effective one can be exercised), or violence like a civil war or coup, or else he won’t be stopped at all. Judging by how similar things are and have been happening in other countries, this feels like some kind of widespread shift away from a relatively short-lived period of democracy and back to the more usual systems of autocratic/oligarchic rule. But hey, it ain’t over yet so we should at least try to save what we’ve got.

I’m old too, so I don’t know how much help I can give to the younger people who will be the ones living long-term in whatever comes next. Good luck on your side of pond.