It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable.
But as 2025 draws to a close with Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel. Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him. Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the president’s party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg, was violating laws and the constitution,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “The American political process is slow-moving and so he was able to do things that were extraordinary.
“But this is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era. Put another way, rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the Trump mantle and the so-called Maga movement, we may be talking in a year or so about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected with Trump.”
DNC is working overtime on how to fumble the opportunity.
Republicans are an enemy of democracy and the constitution
“A wake-up call for America”, just like when the same exact thing happened a few years ago.
I wonder how many wake up calls they need?
Many since they are against being woke.
Snooze
That fucker had been working as hard as he can to get us into a war so that he can cancel the elections. His eyes lit up here: https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-election-2028-war-zelensky-ukraine
Personally, I would like MAGATs to be dragged down by gravity. Then swing a long while.
Trump surrounded by MAGAt loyalists:
Farquaad is such an apt comparison.
There will be a very convenient outbreak of extreme violence. Even though there’s no legal provision to do so, Congress will allow Clownstick to “suspend” the Constitution. No election means Republicans hold power permanently.
They enabled this president
I mean, it’s still win for them, huge win. A lot of the government is destroyed forever, a lot of the elements that were holding the democracy together are now gone, a lot of suffering was inflicted, many people dead. That’s all what they wanted and they got it in spades. No matter what, there will be more of that for a foreseeable future.
And Barron is waiting in the wings. This family will be a thorn in America’s side for generations to come.
Thankfully, he’s a charisma vacuum, so he will have slightly less of a grip on them. Doesn’t matter if the cults persists, but still
yup. this all could have been avoided. all it would have taken is a few republicans with a moral backbone. but what the punks been saying since the 70s is true: no republicans have a moral backbone, if they did they wouldn’t be republicans and most of the democrats don’t have moral backbones either
Having 2017 deja vu with this one… Dems will get one term reeling from the fallout, then blamed for every horrible trailing effect and it’s back to voting for Eric Trump or whatever other neanderthal GOP craps out.
If they do the same thing as the Biden administration - literally NOTHING - to deal with the serious national security threat that MAGA represents, then yeah, they will come roaring back even worse.
The American people have it in them to do ONE MORE flip of power to Democratic hands, and this time, the Dems better deal with the MAGA threat decisively, or it will be the end of America once and for all.
They need to charge and prosecute every MAGA for EVERY SINGLE crime they’ve committed. The election fraud of the 2024 election needs to be comprehensively investigated, and Trump’s presidency invalidated, along with every single thing his administration did. All of his pardons are invalid, and all the Jan 6 Traitors go back to prison, along with the Honduran president, and all those crooked financial predators he released. All legislation is undone, and even Supreme Court decisions are invalid. The Supreme Court should also be expanded to 13 seats, AFTER Alito and Thomas are impeached, and Thomas and his bulldog wife are prosecuted for corruption and treason.
Every single business deal that Trump and his family made while he was president is invalid, and his entire fortune should be confiscated by the government. They won’t need it, the entire family will be in jail, with the possible exception Barron and Tiffany. Tiff will be okay, since she’s a gold-digging whore who married a billionaire, but Barron will be just another poor kid from an organized crime family all of whom are serving life sentences.
It should be against the law to name anything in America after Trump, or any other traitor, including Confederate War traitors.
MAGA is a domestic terrorist organization, and should be prohibited from existing.
These are the kinds of things we need the Democrats to do to take our nation back. After that, we can make sure that people get good educations with Critical Thinking Skills, health care, healthy workplaces, decent wages, affordable housing, etc., and are safe from predatory corporations and Sociopathic Oligarchs.
We need Democrats who are WARRIORS, not weakling appeasers.
None of this is going to happen
We have to FORCE them to do it. It starts by directly telling them what we expect from them, and then only voting for candidates who are enthusiastic about going on the offense against MAGA. Any nonsense like the Michelle Obama Doctrine (“When they go low, we go high”), is a sure path to losing elections. We will only vote for candidates who show strength, courage, and righteous indignation toward MAGA treason and corruption.
The people we elect in 2026 and 2028, including the President, need to be outspoken, angry, courageous warriors, that want to crush MAGA, ruthlessly and mercilessly. Nothing less is acceptable. If those are the kinds of candidates we elect, them we will get most, if not all of those things.
Democrats - ‘Best we can do is a $1500 child tax credit that you can claim once during tax season if you have a child’
And only if you earn under $20k per year.
We don’t need democrats to do all that, we just need citizens. It really just takes all our little communities to come together with a common goal. We need to elect people to the government who are willing to do what you just stated. The democrats are gonna have to have plenty of their own going where the republicans are. Hopefully we can figure out how to fill up the Congress with people who have (I) next to their name. We don’t need anymore political hacks, we need proper leadership.
Of course it takes Democrats, who else is going to do it? MAGA?
My happy future where nobody can get elected with a (D) or ® next to their name because partisanship has become so toxic it was renounced… is INFINITELY more likely than the democrats saving your ass in November. I’m still gonna vote for them but c’mon man, put this clown make-up on with me.
You’re preaching to the choir, Brother, I’ve been an Unafilliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977. So forgive me if after decades of trying other paths (I voted for Ross Perot, twice, although I wouldn’t do that today), I’ve long given up on some sort of a reconfiguration of our election system. At least until we can get total control, and have the will to make bold changes in the direction of this nation, we will have to work within the system and hack it, game it, hijack it, push it, cajole it, market it into getting what this country needs.
The best way to get what we want is to hijack the Democratic Party, the same way MAGA hijacked the Republican Party. In the case of the MAGAs, they just forced the Republicans out of their larval stage, and into their inevitable final form - MAGA.
The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of the people, and the workers, and it has been tempted to stray from it’s mission by many of the same toxins of The Right. It’s time to force the Dems from their larval stage, and into their final form as a true representative of the vast majority of Americans, and not just a tiny group of extremely mentally ill financial hoarders.
Yea I just don’t see it happening under the current leadership. Like can you really imagine the democrats respecting democracy again? Sitting at the table with all their donors and piles of money like…
“Do you think we should allow more local candidates to primary for important seats? Should we allow our congress to become a bunch of people who act and vote on behalf of their constituents interests instead of their party. Should the age of our leadership reflect the age of voting base? Should we be fostering more young leaders and replacing sitting congress people before they shit themselves to death in a seat of power?”
We’ll get to see what policy platforms they push this fall, and the bar for my expectations is in hell.
This.
That’s not fair. Neanderthals weren’t actually that dumb.
The Democrats will find a way to completely mess up this opportunity.
Frankly that party needs to go. We’d be better off if there was another dramatic party shift- send the Dems to the way of the Whigs.
I hate to say it but Obama and Obamacare was the last time I actually felt a president was doing a net positive for Americans.
Biden’s IRA was an amazing recovery for the country after trump completely fucked the economy. Way better than the watered-down nothingburger that ACA is. Note that it’s not Obama’s fault that the ACA turned to shit, that’s all McConnell being objectively evil and petty.
Maybe at the start but not in the watered down, Republican created bill they passedwith zero Republican support. It just further cemented the private healthcare model into law and ensured nobody would revisit it for at least a generation.
Obama’s first term… The second term was all about drone attacks and resting on his laurels.
At a certain point how can’t you just blame voters and non voters?
Dems aren’t perfect but cmon.
At what point can you not blame the democratic party for failing to inspire voters in the midst of an authoritarian blitz.
It can’t be their fault thought despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars, thousands of hours of research across hundreds of focus groups each year to find out what is popular among voters only to continually accidentally do the opposite and disenfranchise the very voters who should be voting for them.
Surely it can’t be the fact the democratic party continually accidentally gives up every political advantage and opportunity to advance by somehow acquiesce to Republicans because this time, “they’ve learned their lesson”.
At this point the democratic party is either controlled opposition, or so completely inept and ignorant that they probably shouldn’t be in power either.
eh, imo it’s obvious that dems arent incompetent…they’re largely controlled opposition, accomplices.
something something ignorance that is indistinguishable from malice should be treated no differently than malice
Blaming voters is not productive because changing voters requires changing the nature of an entire population. Expecting the entire population to suddenly act in a way different then they have acted in the last decade is insanity.
The Democratic party can and should adapt. They have mechanisms to adapt. They can take steps to adapt. They should change to be better. They can start by adapting a popular platform.
True but absolving voters and non voters means they never also feel any responsibility for this shit. And they most certainly are responsible.
It’s amazing how people can feel the effects, and not feel responsible. I should have swallowed my pride and voted in 2016. For Hillary. I did the same thing the Free Palestine kids are doing to Harris, and fuck do I regret not using my political power in 2016 to tell trump to fuck off back to reality TV. Just don’t know how saving Palestine can be your number one political objective, and not be horrified by the results of how Trump is handling it. No hindsight at all. No way Harris would have done anything different.
Because looking to blame one single group is a fool’s mission. It conceals all of the shady shit that goes on.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then Harris’s pro genocide stance was legit.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then gerrymandering doesn’t exist.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then congressional insider trading doesn’t hurt anyone.
If it’s the voters’ fault then who cares that Obama passed the ACA instead of national healthcare?
If it’s the voters’ fault, then monopolies don’t exist. Neither do dirty cops and courts that disenfranchise minorities.
Look. I’m being lazy. I could have said non-voters instead. Or both voters and non-voters. Regardless, systemic problems demand systemic solutions. Your desire to blame individuals ignores that basic principle.
Of course the people still need to be responsible for taking action. But you don’t get to blame them for things they didn’t do, that they didn’t control.
… Or perhaps you’re suggesting more vigilante action? That’s one approach. Is that what you want? We could discuss it.
Are you going to hold your congress people accountable for their funding the genocide in November? And if so how will you weight that against impeaching trump and restoring government aid at home and abroad?
Are we going to burn the country down over Palestine again this November? Tune in to find out!
They thought voting was Kamala was ‘being made to toe the party line’, and as red blooded Americans, nobody fucking tells them what to do. It was never about keeping the orange buffoon out of power so he could continue fucking things up again. Utter foolishness. But they, saved Gaza, I think.
If the DNC wanted Trump to lose they wouldn’t have thrown the election yet again by choosing the worst possible candidates to back. Look at what they did in NYC in a race that had far fewer consequences. They wanted to back the Republican ally Adams and billionaire failed politician Cuomo before the voters made it clear they wanted Mamdani.
Just because the Republican party is dogshit doesn’t mean the DNC is the good guy. We don’t live in a comic-book movie.
The Democratic leadership are adherents of a negative peace: Order before justice. They don’t care about evil, just whether or not their profitable boat is getting rocked.
Yeah the DNC chair Ken Martin recently stated as much:
"In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future,” Martin continued. “Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”
They only care about winning at this point not ideology or principles. If they think beating immigrants in the streets and backing ten more genocides will win them elections, then that’s exactly what they’ll do and they aren’t even ashamed to admit it.
And now we’ve seen the results of the presidency: all these fools can do is cope about how Harris would have been just as bad. Like bro just take your L and admit you let your passion lead you to a poor decision and poor outcomes for the people you claim to care about. Instead of losing funding to Israel, they lost foreign aid for Palestine. Net negative effect of that vote would be enough for me to look in the mirror and end my shit: if I thought that was the most important issue of our time. I certainly would have too much shame to show up on the internet and pretend like I cared and am helping a cause.
It’s like a person who takes a vow of non violence because of religion, then faces a situation where something, or someone they claim to ‘love’ is being threatened. Then they proceed to do nothing and watch as the thibg/ person they love is repeatedly violated. Then wonder why everyone is calling them impotent, weak, pathetic and cowardly, instead of praising them for their principle and virtue. Smfh.
Weak, cowardly, impotent, pathetic. Nice to see the president still exemplifies the virtues of the majority.
Can’t wait for the DNC to give us the most mediocre selections possible, for 60% of the country to not vote, and for the fascist to once again have a majority.
(Optimistic, I know)
The DNC loves having people like Trump in office as it means they have to do even less for the people to get votes and power.
Fuck off with that nonsense
Just because it’s uncomfortable for you to hear doesn’t mean it’s nonsense. Willingly burying your head in the sand isn’t going to solve anything either.
They already have. Susan Collins VS Janet Mills in Maine. Unpopular governor running in an unpopular district, against a 40 year incumbent. Pretty sure we’re gonna need an independent to steal that seat away, and no good looking candidates with 11 months left to go. Not looking good. Can’t wait for the radio commercials.
DNC: we can’t allow extremists. Also these conservatives make some great points.
DNC: We are sick and tired of MAGA walking over us! We’ll only give them half of what they want, and then the other half later.
I’m still convinced that no more than one house will flip blue. which i guess is a little more optimistic but not by much
Y’all going to mention the pedophilia and links to multiple murders or nah?
Brace all you want you piece of shit, you’re still gonna burn.
‘Dragged down’? Oh, no. They don’t get to wash away their complicity by blaming this on one man. They’ve been dragging themselves down for decades prior to Trump.
I want them to lose EVERY SINGLE RACE. Repeat, EVERY SINGLE RACE. Followed by an impeachment and removal of a pedo rapist that has broken every law that exists.
Won’t matter what you want, if the idiots don’t go out and vote.
Words lead to actions. Don’t piss on people shouting for change.
What was it, half of the population reads below K6 level? Good luck with that. But yes. I’m on your side.
What did you achieve here? What are we doing with this exchange? Am I and the rest of the crowd just here for you as a sounding board? Go piss into a well instead of fighting against yourself next time.
Waaaaahhhhh! You’re right. Guess I forced you into this exchange.
No you’re just the annoying fuck at the bar. Congrats.
