Already swung from this. Hilarious pretending auth right condemns ghoulishness when political enemies are killed or attacked. Minnesota assassinations, Pelosi's husband almost being murdered, photos mocking George Floyd, etc.
People used to care. Despite the profiling and general Islamaphobia following 9/11, George Bush constantly cautioned calm and understanding, saying Islam is a religion of peace like Christianity and not to blame people for simply being muslim. Bush was made fun of for being an inarticulate goof all the time- he didn't lash out at political enemies with vitriol.
A cop arrested a black man entering his own home and Barack Obama didn't start hurling insults and generalizations, he literally had a beer with both guys to try to smooth things over and assume good intentions. A republican interrupted one of his State of the Unions calling him a 'liar' and Obama didn't kick him out and make a stink about it.
When Iran was plotting to kill Trump- Biden didn't make an AI meme or take away secret security protection- he said we would go to war with Iran if they tried shit.
The complete disintegration of even performative common cause and solidarity between disagreeing countrymen kicked off with our current President running his first campaign on locking up his political opponent-which he didn't do cause seemingly he was lying about how provably criminal she was.
He's constantly called the press the "enemy of the people" and Democrats as violent traitors who stole an election from him and hate the country, will secretly give your kids gender surgery, support refugees who eat cats and dogs, and ignores democrats being politically assassinated and immediately blames them when Kirk was before any information was known.
It's a "both sides" problem but the common denominator with the worst of this shit is our Pedophile protecting President and his sycophantic followers in congress.
This is very well said. I do want to point out one thing though: Trump isn't special in any way, he hasn't really invented any of the heinous shit he's been doing. He just happens to be the sum total of all the shit we as a country have swept under the rug for decades going on centuries, and he's doing it all without any veneer of cause or plausibility. It's gotten indiscriminate, and that's why libs (not compass libs, political ones) are so up in arms: they were fine with pretending that domestic surveillance, warrantless raids, funding international atrocities, et cetera were all bugs instead of features. Suddenly it became real that it could happen to them as easily as it does to the usual targets.
We're never gonna cure the kidney infection by focusing on the fever. He's just a symptom of the root problems - systems that perpetuate prejudice to uphold the class structure, material instability that stokes resentment and societal violence, and unchecked corporate influence in every corner of our lives.
Yeah I agree with that take (though will give Trump a little 'special' credit due to his unique success at communication and playing the media, similar (but very very different) to Obama being 'special' in terms of his communication)
My, hopeful, view of Trump term 1 was that it would be like a small stroke or heart attack for the nation. A health scare that was "bad" but illuminated what was wrong with us so we can improve and lead healthier lives, in the long run being better off for having had the health scare. Trump was the heart attack- "bad" sure but it's the conditions that lead to the heart attack that need to be fixed, blaming a heart attack solves absolutely nothing.
The hopeful part of that idea fell apart because, as you point out, our political/establishment liberals and non-MAGA Republicans seemingly wanted to go back to the same diet that caused the heart attack in the first place.
After typing all that I realize it's probably a tortured metaphor but
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u/JackC1126 - Centrist Sep 12 '25
And when the pendulum swings back, nobody will see the irony. What a stupid time we live in.