With the advent of dictator Donald Trump and his dangerously unstable, violent, egomaniacal personality, the resistance from civic society has not risen to the deadly challenge either quantitatively or qualitatively.
The midterms are coming, and I hope to God my fellow citizens use it to send a message that a reckoning is coming in the primary too. But I suspect the spineless Trump supports will start thinking a 3rd term is justified given how the previous election was ‘stolen’ from him and they’ll accept whatever twisted logic Republicans use to erase that bit from the Constitution. Or hell, at this point they’ll keep it in there and just ignore it because they don’t give a damn anyway.
We’re trying folks. Bare with us as we trudge through this hellish time in American politics.
I will say, we have seen hopeful amounts of change even in Democratic primaries. Voter suppression has happened in the partisan election, and candidates have been rejected from primaries, but if this continues across the country (slower than we’d like) it’s going to signal to Democrats their same old “I’m the only opposition to Trump you’ve got!” story isn’t working.
But in terms of earning back trust: Yeah, I don’t ever really see a path to that. That’s my main issue, even living here; someone can tell me “I’m sorry I voted for Trump” and I still won’t know what motivated them towards mass murder, as well as lying through their teeth to me about how they never imagined he would do such things.
The midterms are coming, and I hope to God my fellow citizens use it to send a message that a reckoning is coming in the primary too. But I suspect the spineless Trump supports will start thinking a 3rd term is justified given how the previous election was ‘stolen’ from him and they’ll accept whatever twisted logic Republicans use to erase that bit from the Constitution. Or hell, at this point they’ll keep it in there and just ignore it because they don’t give a damn anyway.
We’re trying folks. Bare with us as we trudge through this hellish time in American politics.
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I will say, we have seen hopeful amounts of change even in Democratic primaries. Voter suppression has happened in the partisan election, and candidates have been rejected from primaries, but if this continues across the country (slower than we’d like) it’s going to signal to Democrats their same old “I’m the only opposition to Trump you’ve got!” story isn’t working.
But in terms of earning back trust: Yeah, I don’t ever really see a path to that. That’s my main issue, even living here; someone can tell me “I’m sorry I voted for Trump” and I still won’t know what motivated them towards mass murder, as well as lying through their teeth to me about how they never imagined he would do such things.