Oddly enough, those now in America who are best suited to get across the idea of what a second Trump administration might try/accomplish are those recent immigrants that Republicans are so eager to repel. For many of them come from countries mired deeply in just the kind of authoritarianism and corruption that Trump and his myrmidons exe…
Oddly enough, those now in America who are best suited to get across the idea of what a second Trump administration might try/accomplish are those recent immigrants that Republicans are so eager to repel. For many of them come from countries mired deeply in just the kind of authoritarianism and corruption that Trump and his myrmidons exemplify.
Unfortunately, the ones least able to comprehend or accurately predict what another four years of Trump might be like are the rest of us natives (Democrats and Republicans alike) simply because the vast majority of us have never experienced anything like it. We may make all sort of dire predictions about the end of democracy or else endlessly prate about all the 'accomplishments' of Trump during his first act and assume the second will be a repeat, but neither group really knows what's likely to happen.
I think there are two things that might begin to move enough avid Trumpists away from him to make the crucial difference. These people think Trump has their back. In fact Trump doesn't give a damn about them except as hands to pull voting levers and a plethora of pockets, large and small, to pay his geometrically increasing legal bills. He hollers that he is their retribution, but in fact he is desperately depending on they being his.
I don't really think he wants to be president again (in all honesty I'm not sure why anyone would want the job these days); he just believes that being re-elected is the only chance he has to stay out of jail.
Trumpists will not be persuaded on the basis of what we think will happen politically. They either don't believe us, don't have any idea of the potential, or simply don't care. But if they can be made to see the reality of Trump's priorities, none of which would affect them in any positive way, perhaps some might begin to pull away. And like a small hole in a great dam, a small rivulet might well turn into a tsunami.
Oddly enough, those now in America who are best suited to get across the idea of what a second Trump administration might try/accomplish are those recent immigrants that Republicans are so eager to repel. For many of them come from countries mired deeply in just the kind of authoritarianism and corruption that Trump and his myrmidons exemplify.
Unfortunately, the ones least able to comprehend or accurately predict what another four years of Trump might be like are the rest of us natives (Democrats and Republicans alike) simply because the vast majority of us have never experienced anything like it. We may make all sort of dire predictions about the end of democracy or else endlessly prate about all the 'accomplishments' of Trump during his first act and assume the second will be a repeat, but neither group really knows what's likely to happen.
I think there are two things that might begin to move enough avid Trumpists away from him to make the crucial difference. These people think Trump has their back. In fact Trump doesn't give a damn about them except as hands to pull voting levers and a plethora of pockets, large and small, to pay his geometrically increasing legal bills. He hollers that he is their retribution, but in fact he is desperately depending on they being his.
I don't really think he wants to be president again (in all honesty I'm not sure why anyone would want the job these days); he just believes that being re-elected is the only chance he has to stay out of jail.
Trumpists will not be persuaded on the basis of what we think will happen politically. They either don't believe us, don't have any idea of the potential, or simply don't care. But if they can be made to see the reality of Trump's priorities, none of which would affect them in any positive way, perhaps some might begin to pull away. And like a small hole in a great dam, a small rivulet might well turn into a tsunami.