Not quite.
Extremist GOP forces would like to create a Fundamentalist White Christian Theocracy in the United States.
Eventually the United States of the Children of the Corn would drift towards being an idealogical totalitarian state, like North Korea, in order for its creators to maintain long-term power.
Most Americans and most Republicans don't want that. But, we are increasingly having to choose between increasingly extreme sides as each poltical party purges itself of moderates, constitutionalists, fiscal conservatives, and liberatarians.
With each Administration, more power becomes vested in the Judiciary Branch (via imposition and removal of legal precedent) and in the Executive Branch (via Executive Orders).
Congressional Republicans use the filibuster and judicial appointments to impose their will upon the American people.
Congressional Democrats use the budget reconciliation process to impose their will upon the American people.
Laws and budgets are not being written on the Floors of Congress via legislation, debate, compromise, and concensus - they are bing written behind closed doors by the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate.
Currently, America is a quadrilateral dictatorship of competing Executive dictates, Judicial dictates, House Speaker dictates, and Senate Majority leader dictates.
When Americans elected Obama, they did not elect Harry Reid nor Nancy Pelosi.
When American elected Donald Trump, they did not elect John Boehner / Tim Ryan nor Mitch McConnell.
Each house of Congress is meant to be independent - not a pliant servant of entrenched special interests (DNC, RNC, etc.).
My intuition is that the US Military will need to insert itslef increasingly into civilian affairs because of the ineptitude and corruption of civilian institutions.
