The therapist analogy is a good one. Elsewhere I saw someone talking about your ex being a week sober. Same idea. This is going to take way more than one election to set right.
The same voters are still voting who elected Donald Trump - and then fucking reelected him with full knowledge of who he is and what he does. No other country should trust us again at least until one generation of voters dies off, so 30 years. Maybe longer depending on how things go for those 30 years.
non-yank here, the one saving grace i see with the maga movement is that it’s a cult of personality, and political movements don’t tend to come back once they devolve into cults of personalities. like who’s gonna run it? jd vance, who doesn’t have the charisma to please a couch, let alone to run a country? hegseth, who is hated by his own party more than democrats hate a leftist? rubio, who sees maga more as a problem to solve and manoeuvre around than a movement that defines him? bannon and miller, who are so cartoonishly evil that they had to run things from the shadows even in a country that elected bloody trump?
i sincerely hope you do not have a good answer to this question. if you do, “never” is accurate. if you don’t, we might start trusting you again in like two admins or so. but we would definitely like to see some progress first, and while the blue wave in the midterms halts the decline, the hope for progress is pretty slim so far.
I don’t know who could conceivably replace Trump in his movement. But that is no consolation because Trump’s rise to political power was completely out of left field and really not predictable either.
This analogy would work if the employees elect their bosses. As an outsider you will most likely limit your business with that company to the bare minimum if the employees pick a moron/genius seemingly randomly.
This article is almost a year old, but it’s still very relevant:
We will never fucking trust you again
The therapist analogy is a good one. Elsewhere I saw someone talking about your ex being a week sober. Same idea. This is going to take way more than one election to set right.
The same voters are still voting who elected Donald Trump - and then fucking reelected him with full knowledge of who he is and what he does. No other country should trust us again at least until one generation of voters dies off, so 30 years. Maybe longer depending on how things go for those 30 years.
non-yank here, the one saving grace i see with the maga movement is that it’s a cult of personality, and political movements don’t tend to come back once they devolve into cults of personalities. like who’s gonna run it? jd vance, who doesn’t have the charisma to please a couch, let alone to run a country? hegseth, who is hated by his own party more than democrats hate a leftist? rubio, who sees maga more as a problem to solve and manoeuvre around than a movement that defines him? bannon and miller, who are so cartoonishly evil that they had to run things from the shadows even in a country that elected bloody trump?
i sincerely hope you do not have a good answer to this question. if you do, “never” is accurate. if you don’t, we might start trusting you again in like two admins or so. but we would definitely like to see some progress first, and while the blue wave in the midterms halts the decline, the hope for progress is pretty slim so far.
I don’t know who could conceivably replace Trump in his movement. But that is no consolation because Trump’s rise to political power was completely out of left field and really not predictable either.
What if we cup the balls?
Another mistake I won’t repeat
I can’t argue with that
No, it’s not. It’s more like a bad boss died and was being replaced with an entirely new competent boss.
No, it’s not. There’s some new blood in leadership but the bad boss is very much alive and is only a symptom of the problem, not the cause.
This analogy would work if the employees elect their bosses. As an outsider you will most likely limit your business with that company to the bare minimum if the employees pick a moron/genius seemingly randomly.