It has been a tempered disaster so far with trump at the helm but the worst is yet to come in my opinion. His fumbling through his first 6 months has allowed him to learn, although inadvertently, what he can do better to make things worse. His on the job training to screw our democracy is in no part due to a calculus, no, it is due to a hateful trial and error. He will come to realize that in order to destroy the best parts of America he needs to bribe and cajole better within his republican party. If he knew how to be a leader he would have already accomplished much damage in the area of health care, immigration, taxes and what's left of women's rights etc... But it is dawning on him that his bullying ways can only get him so far and unless the hoped for mental break with reality hits first he will eventually stumble on the formula for putting many working middle poor class citizens in our graves.
He has not been bashful or used ulterior motives to mask his agenda. He lied to get into office but since then his true nature has been on display ever since. What is absolutely astonishing to me is the base support he still receives. I could not have imagined that 5% of the country would be for him now but we still see close to 30% still rabid about his, as they see it "successes". The trumps are not all stupid or ignorant, they are mostly just anti-democratic and hateful. It seems that being anti-democratic and hateful has a large enough following here in the what was the land of the free that it would be difficult to force the trumps into a more conciliatory paradigm. So they will continue to stumble less and gain more traction for their enlightened society destroying measures.
There may be some hope for a respite though if legal considerations are confirmed and adjudicated. However we have seen that the safeguards we thought were inherent within our democracy to prevent a power grab toward authoritarianism are simply an illusion. The more than 200 years we have been a democracy have made for some complex and institutional changes in our government that could prove to be too daunting for the trumps to crumble but given the trump disdain for logic and facts it doesn't make me feel comfortable that trump would understand his limitations to obstacles but instead charge ahead with a lust of mowing them down. The further the trump regime continues on at the helm of our nation the closer we get to being lesser subjects instead of equal citizens.
He has not been bashful or used ulterior motives to mask his agenda. He lied to get into office but since then his true nature has been on display ever since. What is absolutely astonishing to me is the base support he still receives. I could not have imagined that 5% of the country would be for him now but we still see close to 30% still rabid about his, as they see it "successes". The trumps are not all stupid or ignorant, they are mostly just anti-democratic and hateful. It seems that being anti-democratic and hateful has a large enough following here in the what was the land of the free that it would be difficult to force the trumps into a more conciliatory paradigm. So they will continue to stumble less and gain more traction for their enlightened society destroying measures.
There may be some hope for a respite though if legal considerations are confirmed and adjudicated. However we have seen that the safeguards we thought were inherent within our democracy to prevent a power grab toward authoritarianism are simply an illusion. The more than 200 years we have been a democracy have made for some complex and institutional changes in our government that could prove to be too daunting for the trumps to crumble but given the trump disdain for logic and facts it doesn't make me feel comfortable that trump would understand his limitations to obstacles but instead charge ahead with a lust of mowing them down. The further the trump regime continues on at the helm of our nation the closer we get to being lesser subjects instead of equal citizens.
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