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The Democrats will do it.
And if that drives off the libs, the Republicans will make boogeyman noises or proffer the idea of Trump being able to get a 3rd term. And the liberals will rally round their blue-no-matter-who chant even as their children get carted off to whatever fucky warmongering the US is getting involved in next.
That's absolutely how it will go if the US decides it needs the draft.
Some straw man will be created as the new "threat to democracy". Could be Trump, could be whoever else.
If people are already willing to vote for actual genocide just to keep out trump, the draft wouldn't be such a stretch. Just implement a system where you can make a "freedom donation" to exempt your family and rich white liberal families would have no objections.
What else are people gonna choose? Third party? Hell, they're already dismantling what limited, farcical "democracy" exists in many people's eyes by conducting lawfare against and trying to prevent their primary political opponent (Trump) from running.
Not disagreeing with anything you said, but I expect beatings will continue until morale improves (or something explodes). There is no political will amongst the establishment for anything but a continued march to destruction- unrestrained imperialist hegemonic behavior abroad, neoliberal societal destruction at home.