He’s winning due to a serious lack of reality checks among the general American public. Aside from a generally pissed-off left, most of the country is still laughing at memes and planning dinner parties with their family and friends as if it were any other time. They don’t believe it can get as serious as it can get. The American public has been in a safe stasis field for 40+ years. Most people don’t remember the last time they truly panicked about anything beyond rent, or why they ever would.
If we all woke up to this shit, looked around and saw the same agreement on eachother’s faces to right this wrong, we could.
A fair point. He continues to make money on tariffs even as poor people are forced to pay them to keep losing.
He’s winning by walking across our backs.
He’s winning due to a serious lack of reality checks among the general American public. Aside from a generally pissed-off left, most of the country is still laughing at memes and planning dinner parties with their family and friends as if it were any other time. They don’t believe it can get as serious as it can get. The American public has been in a safe stasis field for 40+ years. Most people don’t remember the last time they truly panicked about anything beyond rent, or why they ever would.
If we all woke up to this shit, looked around and saw the same agreement on eachother’s faces to right this wrong, we could.
We probably won’t, tho.
No. We don’t even talk face to face any more, just huddle around screens instead of the usual organic meetups of the 90s and such.