Anonymous wrote:There is no longer a milquetoast Republican Party that Democrats can tolerate. Instead, there’s a populist Republican Party that WINS. Everyone knew who Trump was, and they STILL preferred him to Democrats in 2024. Assuming that HE is going to now SAVE Democrats from themselves is wishful thinking indeed.

Instead, Democrats will have to come up with a new policy platform that flyover state voters actually like. So far, that looks like a task the Democrats can’t handle. They HATE flyover state voters and do NOT want to govern for their benefit.

Anonymous wrote:The supporters that did not know are idiots.

He told everyone what he was going to do. He told everyone he was going to pardon all those who were convicted of January 6 crimes.

He told everyone he was going after all those at DoJ who when after him.

He told everyone about Project 2025 and no one believed him.

He has always been a vindictive, arrogant, liar.

Americans are stupid!

Anonymous wrote:Trump just posted a picture of himself as the Pope on one of his social media accounts. Red check - is that Truth Social?

INSANE that the party that lost it over Obama’s tan suit is ok with THIS.

Anonymous wrote:To anyone who has blamed/insulted the OP:
Yes, we knew it would be bad. Yes, we read Project 25 (which he lied about).
However, we also made it through his first term with a lot less insane chaos and harm than he's done in the first 100 days of this term. There was chaos. There was harm. But MAGA has stretched the outer limits of our democracy farther and faster than last time and our checks and balances are having a harder time than we expected. We secretly hoped that there would still be adults in the room.

Anonymous wrote:One thing that stands out to me is the hysteria and the news coverage.

I do wonder what will happen if everything ends up better for Americans following the tariffs, and if we don’t enter a supply crisis. We likely will, but nothing is guaranteed. The media shares the story that we are 100% guaranteed to be screwed by tariffs, but nothing is guaranteed in life and whenever people tell me something is certain (DC real estate will never go down!) I’m suspicious.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

instead of learning from the 2024 election loss, Democrats have doubled down on all theor least popular positions. They’ve also made it clear that they want a one-party system and are enraged by the existence of Republican and Independent voters. And they’ve come out strongly against audits and against reductions in wasteful and fraudulent spending.

Will Trump reverse the 50 year trend of the upper classes gaining at the expense of the working and middle classes? Maybe, maybe not.

This is crazy MAGA-troll-sounding.
Trump cares ONLY about preserving the wealth of very upper-class, very wealthy supporters. He is hoping to arrest and imprison anyone not MAGA, so there goes your silly assertion that Dems want a one-party system.
As for being against audits, it's actually the 'auditors' that Dems are against. DOGE is unvetted young people without the experience or ability to audit anything. They are just stealing data and billing us millions for the privilege.

Of course. Dems are right on many of the nuanced facts. But they’ve become so shrill and unlikable about it that the party’s popularity has imploded. To swing voters and flyover state voters, it sure looks like Democrats oppose audits. Sure, we have our reasons. Our former hero Elon is bad now because of insufficient Twitter censorship. We theoretically don’t object to audits but the auditors need to be older and more vetted by us. But it’s all too convoluted. We’re opposing the audits. And those of us opposing the audits most loudly are those of is personally losing money from the cuts. The whole thing is a bad look, even if we’re technically right that the process is bad. There are a lot of examples of government waste that are egregious. And we seem to swing voters like we are furious about any attempt to reduce that waste. This won’t play well in Peoria.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

instead of learning from the 2024 election loss, Democrats have doubled down on all theor least popular positions. They’ve also made it clear that they want a one-party system and are enraged by the existence of Republican and Independent voters. And they’ve come out strongly against audits and against reductions in wasteful and fraudulent spending.

Will Trump reverse the 50 year trend of the upper classes gaining at the expense of the working and middle classes? Maybe, maybe not.

This is crazy MAGA-troll-sounding.
Trump cares ONLY about preserving the wealth of very upper-class, very wealthy supporters. He is hoping to arrest and imprison anyone not MAGA, so there goes your silly assertion that Dems want a one-party system.
As for being against audits, it's actually the 'auditors' that Dems are against. DOGE is unvetted young people without the experience or ability to audit anything. They are just stealing data and billing us millions for the privilege.

Of course. Dems are right on many of the nuanced facts. But they’ve become so shrill and unlikable about it that the party’s popularity has imploded. To swing voters and flyover state voters, it sure looks like Democrats oppose audits. Sure, we have our reasons. Our former hero Elon is bad now because of insufficient Twitter censorship. We theoretically don’t object to audits but the auditors need to be older and more vetted by us. But it’s all too convoluted. We’re opposing the audits. And those of us opposing the audits most loudly are those of is personally losing money from the cuts. The whole thing is a bad look, even if we’re technically right that the process is bad. There are a lot of examples of government waste that are egregious. And we seem to swing voters like we are furious about any attempt to reduce that waste. This won’t play well in Peoria.

Anonymous wrote:

instead of learning from the 2024 election loss, Democrats have doubled down on all theor least popular positions. They’ve also made it clear that they want a one-party system and are enraged by the existence of Republican and Independent voters. And they’ve come out strongly against audits and against reductions in wasteful and fraudulent spending.

Will Trump reverse the 50 year trend of the upper classes gaining at the expense of the working and middle classes? Maybe, maybe not.

This is crazy MAGA-troll-sounding.
Trump cares ONLY about preserving the wealth of very upper-class, very wealthy supporters. He is hoping to arrest and imprison anyone not MAGA, so there goes your silly assertion that Dems want a one-party system.
As for being against audits, it's actually the 'auditors' that Dems are against. DOGE is unvetted young people without the experience or ability to audit anything. They are just stealing data and billing us millions for the privilege.

Anonymous wrote:I didn't vote for Trump. I voted for Harris, I even took a few weekends to bike around exurban Pennsylvania to knock on doors for Harris. I had a brief surge of enthusiasm for Harris mainly because she wasn't Biden.

That said, this time around when Trump won, my reaction was... "meh, whatever, we'll get through it." Not the outrage like I had in 2016. A part of me felt like the Democrats kind of deserved to lose, the DNC has been so cringe and awful in recent years, and though I personally lean left, I felt like the Dems had overreached on a bunch of woke stuff that most Americans don't care about. That, and a bunch of people I know who are immigrants and people of color had soured on the Democrats and had become Trump-curious for a variety of reasons, and I didn't want to be one of those whiny white liberals who thought she knew better than anyone else. On top of it all, Trump 1 wasn't as horrific as I thought he would be, he was mostly embarrassing and clownish, but the economy hummed along. His foreign policy was dumb but didn't cause outright disasters just yet. All in all, 2017-2019 weren't terrible years for the average American. So I didn't join any marches or protests or sew any pink hats or rant on social media. I figured, well, he's pushing 80, he's kind of nuts and also just lazy, maybe he'll spend his whole term just golfing and tweeting and nothing will happen.

I had no idea how wrong I would be. How horrible things would get and so quickly. It's so much worse than anyone ever expected. I am truly afraid. Everyone is worried for their lives and livelihoods. Everything is bad, everything is a mess, it's so obviously an authoritarian oligarchy and it is no longer crying wolf. It's absolutely unbelievable. I thought American democratic institutions were strong enough to withstand a madman and his cult, but apparently not.

Anonymous wrote:One thing that stands out to me is the hysteria and the news coverage.

I do wonder what will happen if everything ends up better for Americans following the tariffs, and if we don’t enter a supply crisis. We likely will, but nothing is guaranteed. The media shares the story that we are 100% guaranteed to be screwed by tariffs, but nothing is guaranteed in life and whenever people tell me something is certain (DC real estate will never go down!) I’m suspicious.