One thing you have to keep in mind with history is that everything seems impossible until it isn't. This is why you have to fight for what is right even if it seems impossible. Trumpism seems overwhelming now, but that doesn't mean it's going to last forever. It might suddenly collapse! 1/x - ThreadSky

zingherpolisci.bsky.social • 11 days ago

One thing you have to keep in mind with history is that everything seems impossible until it isn't. This is why you have to fight for what is right even if it seems impossible. Trumpism seems overwhelming now, but that doesn't mean it's going to last forever. It might suddenly collapse! 1/x

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conniemary.bsky.social•11 days ago

I never thought I'd see a black president but we got one - an amazing one at that.
So I feel encouraged by this post. Thanks so much for sharing, Josh.

antimonopoly.bsky.social•11 days ago

I wrote in song "If all good things come to an end it has to be the same for the bad."

kellumdander.bsky.social•11 days ago

Trump getting elected seemed impossible in 2015 that's for sure

steffnw.bsky.social•10 days ago

Of course Trumpism won't collapse on its own: it needs help.

1) Call it out on every transgression;

2) Offer more attractive solutions (that help wean them off their authoritarian daddy issues)

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•11 days ago

If you go back and read abolitionist writings during the 1850s, many of them did not think they'd see the end of slavery in their lifetimes. For many of them, fighting for abolition was about future generations--something with no prospect of success in the short term. Then the Civil War happened 2/x

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•11 days ago

The Montgomery Bus Boycott in the mid-1950s started with a very simple list of seemingly minor demands, like Black people being able to enter the bus through the front door. The bus boycott, led by MLK Jr, sparked a mass movement. In 1964, Congress Passed the Civil Rights Act and ended Jim Crow. 3/x

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•11 days ago

In 2008, a majority California voters, one of the most liberal electorates in the country, banned gay marriage via Prop 8. In 2014, just six years later, SCOTUS ruled that gay marriage was protected by the 14th Amendment! 4/x

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•11 days ago

The common thread here is that people kept fighting for what was right even if the odds of success looked slim in the present. Turns out, we're really bad at predicting the future! This is why resisting authoritarianism is mandatory even if the short term odds of success seem long. 5/x

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•11 days ago

Trump's popularity is already underwater and dropping like a rock. The path to justice is always there, even if it isn't clear where the path is in the moment. But opportunities to bend the arc of history towards justice do not just manifest, they appear because people fought for the. 6/6

harendt.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thank you for this inspiring thread.

shuasanchez.bsky.social•11 days ago

Really agree w your message here, unnecessarily hopping in to say it was 2015 when SCOTUS legalized gay marriage

evangeline63.bsky.social•11 days ago

TODAY IS THAT DAY.

alexowah.bsky.social•11 days ago

it's cheesy, but i always think of Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator: "So long as men die, liberty will never perish"

revjpdonaldson.bsky.social•10 days ago

Unfortunately...

SCOTUS, through the disastrous "Citizens United" ruling, has decided that money equals speech and corporations have the rights of people.

Theoretically, corporations can be immortal.
https://www.worldatlas.com/industries/the-oldest-companies-still-operating-today.html

pennyrose.bsky.social•11 days ago

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

jimsteele.bsky.social•11 days ago

Even if all else fails, the US is the most heavily armed populace in the history of the world.

Nothing is impossible in this scenario. For good or ill.

marsisblu.bsky.social•11 days ago

It will collapse//gradually and then suddenly

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