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1. kmeist+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-12 17:05:16
I didn't say the world isn't on a dangerous path - just that pushback against Trump's demands still works.

To make my political opinion more clear, the reason why Trump is able to do all this insane shit is because everyone in a position to tell him "No" has decided not to. Most of the political fights he wins are because he bribed or demoralized the other side into not showing up - not because he's winning on merit or power.

Meanwhile the actual voters - the people who matter - are way angrier at Trump than they were last term. Trump fucked up the Epstein files so badly the House had to pass a law to force him to follow his own god damned campaign promises. The MAGA coalition is falling apart. And on the other side, candidates that actually promise economic relief (as opposed to social justice[0] only) are doing quite well. If the DNC were to pull their heads out of their asses and stop trying to run extremely unpopular candidates on the basis of "well, they're not Trump" and "it's her time" they'd be winning bigly.

[0] To be clear, the problem is not social justice in a vacuum. It's the use of it to avoid having to talk about economic issues. Ever since Obama we've had a string of neoliberals that emphasize social issues to avoid having to talk about the economy, even though at least some of those issues are downstream of economic problems they don't want to touch.

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