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.
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.
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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.