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It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable.
But as 2025 draws to a close with Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel. Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him. Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the president’s party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg, was violating laws and the constitution,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “The American political process is slow-moving and so he was able to do things that were extraordinary.
“But this is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era. Put another way, rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the Trump mantle and the so-called Maga movement, we may be talking in a year or so about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected with Trump.”
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Can’t wait for the DNC to give us the most mediocre selections possible, for 60% of the country to not vote, and for the fascist to once again have a majority.
(Optimistic, I know)
They already have. Susan Collins VS Janet Mills in Maine. Unpopular governor running in an unpopular district, against a 40 year incumbent. Pretty sure we’re gonna need an independent to steal that seat away, and no good looking candidates with 11 months left to go. Not looking good. Can’t wait for the radio commercials.
The DNC loves having people like Trump in office as it means they have to do even less for the people to get votes and power.
I’m still convinced that no more than one house will flip blue. which i guess is a little more optimistic but not by much
DNC: we can’t allow extremists. Also these conservatives make some great points.
DNC: We are sick and tired of MAGA walking over us! We’ll only give them half of what they want, and then the other half later.
Just don’t have elections, then. Or just say the GOP won and contest everywhere, losing GOP reps refuse to leave until the election is ‘fair’. Never admit it’s fair and never leave. Then the takeover is complete as they never have to give up their positions.
I’m not confident at all, that if Trump and the GOP tried to refuse to leave, the mechanisms intended to remove them, will be allowed to function. The GOP controls everything right now, which means all the mechanisms of power, and with it the authority of those positions within the functioning of government. They can just all agree to act as if they won, just like Trump already tried to do by refusing to concede in 2016. He didn’t have enough loyalists in power that time. This time around they control everything and are removing loyalists from those positions so when Trump demands to stay president, all those positions** of government act like he is. That’s when civil disobedience of bureaucrats and military starts happening, or civil war erupts, or America is a completely fascist state.
Yea they don’t even need to try to steal the election this time, it’s already stolen. These people aren’t leaving they are entrenched by the crimes they are committing. They can’t let law and order come back or they risk losing everything.
Don’t do that, don’t give us hope…
Remember when the vote was between an old, richbitch, white, fat, senile narcissist preying on girls and women and with no clue about business or government; and a younger, black woman with experience in government and a career built on prosecuting predators? That was a slam dunk, wasn’t it?
Harris was a crap candidate.
There should have been a primary, Biden promised that he would be a one time president
And many young democrats didn’t vote for her because she wasn’t saying the right things about Palestinians. That worked out well for them.
Tell us again why she had to support Israel in spite of losing voters?
That worked out well for them.
The democrat party? Yes, the Democrat party and their candidate really screwed-the-pooch on that one.
Elections require enthusiasm to win
Dude is a pedo, what a disgrace of a country 😆
They fucked around and are going to find out. They alienated the swing voters terribly.
Our electronic voting machines are rigged, so they’re not sweating anything
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I want them to lose EVERY SINGLE RACE. Repeat, EVERY SINGLE RACE. Followed by an impeachment and removal of a pedo rapist that has broken every law that exists.
Won’t matter what you want, if the idiots don’t go out and vote.
Words lead to actions. Don’t piss on people shouting for change.
What was it, half of the population reads below K6 level? Good luck with that. But yes. I’m on your side.
What did you achieve here? What are we doing with this exchange? Am I and the rest of the crowd just here for you as a sounding board? Go piss into a well instead of fighting against yourself next time.
Waaaaahhhhh! You’re right. Guess I forced you into this exchange.
No you’re just the annoying fuck at the bar. Congrats.
Doesn’t matter what I am. If you’re American, quit complaining and posturing, and go out and fucking vote.
‘Dragged down’? Oh, no. They don’t get to wash away their complicity by blaming this on one man. They’ve been dragging themselves down for decades prior to Trump.
The Democrats will find a way to completely mess up this opportunity.
I hate to say it but Obama and Obamacare was the last time I actually felt a president was doing a net positive for Americans.
Maybe at the start but not in the watered down, Republican created bill they passedwith zero Republican support. It just further cemented the private healthcare model into law and ensured nobody would revisit it for at least a generation.
Obama’s first term… The second term was all about drone attacks and resting on his laurels.
At a certain point how can’t you just blame voters and non voters?
Dems aren’t perfect but cmon.
Because looking to blame one single group is a fool’s mission. It conceals all of the shady shit that goes on.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then Harris’s pro genocide stance was legit.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then gerrymandering doesn’t exist.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then congressional insider trading doesn’t hurt anyone.
If it’s the voters’ fault then who cares that Obama passed the ACA instead of national healthcare?
If it’s the voters’ fault, then monopolies don’t exist. Neither do dirty cops and courts that disenfranchise minorities.
Look. I’m being lazy. I could have said non-voters instead. Or both voters and non-voters. Regardless, systemic problems demand systemic solutions. Your desire to blame individuals ignores that basic principle.
Of course the people still need to be responsible for taking action. But you don’t get to blame them for things they didn’t do, that they didn’t control.
… Or perhaps you’re suggesting more vigilante action? That’s one approach. Is that what you want? We could discuss it.
At what point can you not blame the democratic party for failing to inspire voters in the midst of an authoritarian blitz.
It can’t be their fault thought despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars, thousands of hours of research across hundreds of focus groups each year to find out what is popular among voters only to continually accidentally do the opposite and disenfranchise the very voters who should be voting for them.
Surely it can’t be the fact the democratic party continually accidentally gives up every political advantage and opportunity to advance by somehow acquiesce to Republicans because this time, “they’ve learned their lesson”.
At this point the democratic party is either controlled opposition, or so completely inept and ignorant that they probably shouldn’t be in power either.
eh, imo it’s obvious that dems arent incompetent…they’re largely controlled opposition, accomplices.
something something ignorance that is indistinguishable from malice should be treated no differently than malice
Blaming voters is not productive because changing voters requires changing the nature of an entire population. Expecting the entire population to suddenly act in a way different then they have acted in the last decade is insanity.
The Democratic party can and should adapt. They have mechanisms to adapt. They can take steps to adapt. They should change to be better. They can start by adapting a popular platform.
True but absolving voters and non voters means they never also feel any responsibility for this shit. And they most certainly are responsible.
They thought voting was Kamala was ‘being made to toe the party line’, and as red blooded Americans, nobody fucking tells them what to do. It was never about keeping the orange buffoon out of power so he could continue fucking things up again. Utter foolishness. But they, saved Gaza, I think.
If the DNC wanted Trump to lose they wouldn’t have thrown the election yet again by choosing the worst possible candidates to back. Look at what they did in NYC in a race that had far fewer consequences. They wanted to back the Republican ally Adams and billionaire failed politician Cuomo before the voters made it clear they wanted Mamdani.
Just because the Republican party is dogshit doesn’t mean the DNC is the good guy. We don’t live in a comic-book movie.
Having 2017 deja vu with this one… Dems will get one term reeling from the fallout, then blamed for every horrible trailing effect and it’s back to voting for Eric Trump or whatever other neanderthal GOP craps out.
This.
If they do the same thing as the Biden administration - literally NOTHING - to deal with the serious national security threat that MAGA represents, then yeah, they will come roaring back even worse.
The American people have it in them to do ONE MORE flip of power to Democratic hands, and this time, the Dems better deal with the MAGA threat decisively, or it will be the end of America once and for all.
They need to charge and prosecute every MAGA for EVERY SINGLE crime they’ve committed. The election fraud of the 2024 election needs to be comprehensively investigated, and Trump’s presidency invalidated, along with every single thing his administration did. All of his pardons are invalid, and all the Jan 6 Traitors go back to prison, along with the Honduran president, and all those crooked financial predators he released. All legislation is undone, and even Supreme Court decisions are invalid. The Supreme Court should also be expanded to 13 seats, AFTER Alito and Thomas are impeached, and Thomas and his bulldog wife are prosecuted for corruption and treason.
Every single business deal that Trump and his family made while he was president is invalid, and his entire fortune should be confiscated by the government. They won’t need it, the entire family will be in jail, with the possible exception Barron and Tiffany. Tiff will be okay, since she’s a gold-digging whore who married a billionaire, but Barron will be just another poor kid from an organized crime family all of whom are serving life sentences.
It should be against the law to name anything in America after Trump, or any other traitor, including Confederate War traitors.
MAGA is a domestic terrorist organization, and should be prohibited from existing.
These are the kinds of things we need the Democrats to do to take our nation back. After that, we can make sure that people get good educations with Critical Thinking Skills, health care, healthy workplaces, decent wages, affordable housing, etc., and are safe from predatory corporations and Sociopathic Oligarchs.
We need Democrats who are WARRIORS, not weakling appeasers.
Democrats - ‘Best we can do is a $1500 child tax credit that you can claim once during tax season if you have a child’
And only if you earn under $20k per year.
That’s not fair. Neanderthals weren’t actually that dumb.
Y’all going to mention the pedophilia and links to multiple murders or nah?
Unanimously voted worst president ever BEFORE Americans re-elected him with an even more aggressive agenda… I don’t really see any surprise here
Bur Gaza…? Dumbfucks deserve every one of the next 3 years.
You supported the genocide in Gaza and still lost, so who’s the real dumbass?
Even if many Republican politicians suddenly cannot even remember hearing this name “Trump” and pretend they “didn’t like the tweeting”, they’ll still be for all the worst policies of the Republican party.
Same goes for the Republican voters - even if they are given lifeboats to distance themselves with some new incarnation of the teabagger astroturf campaign, they’ll still all just be as awful and terrible and employing vibes instead of critical thinking.
Now if only the opposition can do their part to sweep up as many voters as possible - even former Taco supporters that you can peel off - without the constant purity tests and so on. Right now, the Democrats should be more popular than they have been in a very long time, but are managing to completely fuck that up anyway.
