I didn’t vote for Trump, this is not a justification for anything he is doing, this is purely me trying to find any crumb of hope in this abysmal situation.

The country was in decline for at least a decade before Trump took office. So far everything has been a slow boil and we Americans just take it imo.

Maybe Trump will make everything so awful so quickly it will force actual change. Basically we were slowly heating the water and when it turned lukewarm Trump just cranked the heat up to max, maybe the frog realizes this and jumps out.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Absolutely not, not only will this administration not make anything better everything will become significantly worse. For this example I will assume that there is an election in 2028 (massive assumption, ill get to what if there isnt):

    1. The Democrats will run a Trump lite but with absolutely nothing Trump had that made him popular, instead the next Democratic candidate will essentially copy Trumps policies but not as bad and more efficiently. See how the Democrats responded to Reagan and Bush.
    2. When the Democrats go significantly further to the right so will the Republicans, in 2034 the Democrats will be as right wing as Trump is today. This will become the new norm, Fascism will be an openly accepted talking point, and everything will get worse.
    3. Bipartisan legislation will ensure fascism remains uncontested and nobody will vote third party since thats a “waste of a vote”. People on world and other similar liberal platforms will insist its the fault of third party voters and nonvoters for not voting hard enough. Massive campaigns will occur where the Democrats insist that even though they only ever pass bipartisan legislation and that legislation is always fascist they’re 5% better than the Republicans.

    But we may not even have a 2028 election and if so:

    1. People will make large protests that get shut down quickly.
    2. Fascism takes hold, few resist
    3. Things get worse