I agree. I personally think Trump has been a threat to democratic institutions from the beginning and now in his second term he appears to be better prepared than ever to attack them.
I also think that Trump views social media companies like Meta as “power centers” which he would likely want to control or influence as much as possible.
Overall I think we have to start prioritizing politics more given the political climate and drastic implications it could have for companies & the economy at large.
It appears that the U.S. is increasingly polarizing which brings risks of “some sort of civil war” with no side accepting established institutions or processes as Dalio describes it and the system as we know it could be changed forever.
To Do & Assessment
Unfortunately I don’t know how strong institutions are as of now and how hard it would be to change them but this is a question we could research in a new topic. For now I am assuming that they are sufficiently strong and I view any laws or actions that would aim to take control of a company like Meta for political purposes as unlikely. This is due to the fact that the U.S have strong traditions of ownership, controlling a company and its employees against the wills of its leadership and owners can be difficult and the U.S would likely want to remain a strong jurisdiction for business, investors & innovation.
What would be more likely and easy to implement in my opinion is to pressure a company into compliance.
Please feel free to argue against this preliminary assessment esp. if you have reasons or research to believe it is unreasonable optimistic.