Of course minorities, and AA especially, would be especially attacked and oppressed under an authoritarian state, but all would be attacked and oppressed and quickly learn to not look as people were arrested and dragged away. To be grateful to be able to continue to have homes and jobs and to accept increasing limitations on freedoms and living conditions.
The Republican seditionists clearly plan for last November to be the last time we have the electoral power to stop them.
As for what we'd do after that, authoritarian governments have never before had the means of surveillance and oppression they do now. Those who tried to unite would be picked up leaving work and in supermarket parking lots, before long identified by facial recognition at intersections and gas stations. The Jim Cornyns and Scott Abbots, much less whoever gave them their orders, wouldn't hesitate to use tanks, helicopters, military arms against crowds or to shut off power, communications, water, to disobedient residents, or whole troublesome areas. Think what happened when the power went down in TX and how quickly desperation built.
And initially half the nation would support the new regime, half uneasily, the other half eager for the arrests and executions to begin. Things would probably continue mostly normal for most people for some while, but they'd fairly quickly learn to be afraid to know or help those targeted by the government.
I've wondered a few times which blue states could or would be holdouts, deny the sovereignty of Jim Eagle.
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