I know I am jumping ahead, but I think the next phase may drag out a bit…. So I was thinking about how we are going to redo government after DC is excavated.
In the John Titor timeline, after DC was nuked, the people divided the country into 5 regions. Each region had a top leader and elections every 5 years. No two regions held elections in the same year. The replacement for DC was in the middle of the country (Missouri maybe) and instead of a President… there was a team of the 5 regional leaders. I don't recall John going into detail about the legislative and judiciary branches of govt., just the executive branch.
If we are redo-ing government as said in the POTUS vids, we really need to be thinking about this or else it will be more of the same…. following the leaders.