But everything else is so interconnected (no electricity to pump water or fuel, nuclear power plants and chemical processing plants going down, sometimes as catastrophically as Monica Lewinsky, generators at hospitals running out of fuel) that we'd be in for a *LOT* of fun even after the feral yutes were all dead after turning on each other or being sniped at one-by-one in the second ring of bedroom communities.
The interesting speculative part, would be (heh heh heh) what would happen -- societally -- to the Zuckerbergs and Gates and so forth, after they'd fled for their New Zealand redoubts: I doubt they'd be welcome back anytime soon.
“Not exactly: diesels would still work.”
One of the things that we’ve done to erstwhile reliable diesels is saddle them with all kinds of electronic controls in hopes of making them “cleaner”. These things make modern diesel engines susceptible to EMP, unfortunately.
For how long? How long to the diesels need to be running so that everything else can come back on line? Weeks, months?
Our society has never known this. And most of us take it for granted.