It’s the “draining California reservoirs so he can tweet about how he would’ve stopped the fires” that put me over the edge. This man’s brain is thoroughly cooked.
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I just do not think Trump’s coalition has the political will to fight back the unrest that will come from tariff wreckage and putting 15,000 trans soldiers and 70% of government employees out of a job. But I guess we’re all gonna find out if Donnie can wriggle his way out of this one.
I continue to think the biggest vulnerability in what Trump is trying to do is that the cities where capital and power exist belong to his most motivated opponents. If his movement came from the cities it would be invincible.
This was Trump’s problem in 2020 too - every conflict between state security and protestors took place on the protestors’ home field. Calling in the military wouldn’t change that basic fact, and when was the last time the US military defeated an insurgency?
Last thought: I think Trump has been able to skate into office because there is not a ton of overlap between the people who will vote against him and the people who will take to the streets against him but that doesn’t mean this country does not have an anti Trump majority in it.
You also can’t crash the economy. The last time that happened a Republican Congress with Trump as President had to pass some of the most significant anti-poverty laws this country had seen in decades. They could only take them away again when industry was booming and unemployment was down.
On the tariff issue, I've been in the car biz and it will be a disaster, hitting Ford and GM the worst. But I'm on several auto buff forums and nothings been said... Maybe they don't believe Trump would do this to them?
kinda think that's the point. He's carrying water for people wealthier than him. The only thing he has is his base and the congress reps that chase them. Allowing him to be the face of the chaos until his base erodes and those same reps 25th him. Making JD the kinder gentler oligarch ball washer.
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Last time around, his most ardent goons attempted to take over a single city block in Portland. They couldn't do it.
They just do not have the numbers to sow terror and death at the scale they want to.