Need to leave credit, this awesome *almost plausible* short story from a couple months ago is I was thinking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4hzddg/wp_you_obtain_a_device_that_tells_you_exactly/d2tq4an/

Along with an epilogue “Congratulations, you succeeded! Oh, I forgot to mention, to get to the next level, you actually do have to kill their families.”

But maybe that’s insanely wrong to expect. Nothing he has done to now has demonstrated that “stopping” is a path he’s interested in. He might. But once he’s tasted power he may just go full Pol Pot. Nobody, nobody, nobody expects that. Even though it’s exactly what he’s said.

And given the right situation, a perfectly well-functioning nation can devolve into that pretty quickly. Go through with that committee to jail Hillary. Or make some more jokes about 2nd amendment that someone takes too seriously. More power to Trump, more self-righteousness to his supporters, things escalate to where nobody could ever have imagined.

I don’t think that will happen. I do think that Trump is a moderate and just wanted this one thing as a crowning achievement. But so far everything that everyone has thought in the last two years has been dead wrong.

That said the world will be sand in 25 years so maybe who cares.

The single ones I mean