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So how long before something like a no confidence action or something can be taken to stop this? He's speedrunning turning the US into a madhouse and I know the VP would be next in line but... Something? Anything more legitimate than just fighting fire with fire by various groups being uncooperative?
The time for that has passed. This is the end game.
General strike. All the money flows because we make it flow.
You're asking this as if the majority of congress isn't fully behind the Trumpist authoritarian agenda.
The US doesn't have a mechanism for a no confidence vote, the only thing we have is impeachment, and that won't happen while the Republicans own the House and Senate.
You need a 218 vote majority to impeach in the House, Republicans hold a 220 vote majority there.
Then you need a 67 vote majority in the Senate to convict and remove him, Republicans hold 53/100 seats there.
I’m more and more convinced by the day that this isn’t going to end without at least some level of political violence
That's historically the only way fascism ends.
They're not going to let it end without it. In fact, they want it so they can use it as an excuse to double down on the fascism.
It could happen if republican members of the house and senate weren't such cowards/ ghouls/ shills that would rather help a fascist stay in power than admit their party is wrong.
So, in other words it'll never happen.