Did you not read the four year planning part or hear about project 2025 and how it's been accurate this far or are you just stupid?
Blocking someone before they can reply is sad lol
Lmao now two people did it. So I'll add this here:
Internet culture needs to drop that it's acceptable to flood comments with someone's unnecessary and uneducated input so we can go back to seeing relevant information. I'll accept the irony for this specific comment.
It's not even Trump. He's a doddering old fool. It's steven miller and everyone like him behind the scenes. Trump just signs what they put in front of him and says whatever he thinks will make his base happy.
That’s what I said yes. They either voted for it directly or endorsed it by not voting against it. The majority is ok with this whether you like that fact or not.
They don't care if the country literally burns and collapses. They only want that vicarious win through their parasocial influencer god--i mean President.
For them, it's an internet argument IRL. They haven't thought through any of the ramifications.
'Lucky this guy is incompetent' - see, I believe he is incompetent, but he is meant to be - he's just a paid actor, there are others who pull the strings, and paid him well, and allowed him to put his name on everything and such, and they told him one thing - 'be ridiculous, be orange, have your tantrums, go on a twitter spree, be an orange organ monkey'
The Democrats really aren't getting the amount of blame they should be for this whole thing. Bringing Biden is was just a move to take down Trump at that time. That they didn't spend 4 years getting their shit together to stamp him out is negligence of the highest order.
It's not Trump, it's the people riding his coattails and telling him what to do. They will outlast him, we need to keep an eye on them. Go ask Google who the chief contributors to Project 2025 are.
I'd say that when the president and his entourage thumb their nose at the Constitution daily, the very foundation of what actually made this country great is gone. We are Russia, just with a bigger middle class (for now).
Our allies will NEVER trust us again. Any treaty, trade deal, anything and everything. Will be subject to maximum 4 year limits. We will no longer have any hopes of a "coalition of the willing" ever happening again to help combat any countries that decide to attack us while we look weak. Bush already raised the bar as to what other countries will deem acceptable when it comes to assisting us. This administration has made that bar pretty much unreachable. Anything less than another Pearl Harbor type attack will be met with resistance when we ask for help.
Our military is great but we also rely heavily on other countries for the assist and without that. Our military will become weaker. All this is just the damage done to our safety and foreign policy globally and isn't even everything. That doesn't include the dollar becoming so weak that this batch of inflation will look like child's play in another few years. The trillions of dollars added to our deficit by these morons is going to have a huge impact on us. It's just waiting in the wind but it will come back to hurt us.
You're asking a very simple question that has many complex answers. This isn't an exhaustive list by any means, just what I could think of the top of my head. This country might not be wholly destroyed but it will never be the country we knew only 10 years ago and not for the better.
My personal opinion is that he's eradicated so many norms of governance and politics that there is no going back. The imperial presidency has been a thing for a while, but Congress has totally abdicated its role to Trump, and historically speaking its rare for another branch of government to take back power it willingly cedes. The norms and traditions that kept us a stable democracy since the civil war have been smashed, and there's no incentive now to put it back together.
This isn't even including the number of deep cuts he's made to federal funding, self-defeating economic policy and attacks on education that will probably be generational in impact. The brain drain is happening already. I feel like America is the UK of the 1920s. Already in decline as a world power, but less noticeably so because its still large enough that inertia of our military and economic might is still considerable.
But we've lost the respect of almost all our allies. It's really hard to regain trust once you've destroyed it. Even if Mamdani is elected president in 2028, our allies will just wonder if the American people will eventually vote for someone even mor dangerous than Trump further down the line. They have no reason to believe that our checks and balances work anymore.
Our reputation in the world is forever tarnished. We gave up all kinds of soft power and influence, and the tariffs caused many countries to broker new trade deals with each other, excluding us (see also Mexico and Canada). Many industries are going under because they cannot afford to operate.
Law means nothing anymore. The government literally lies to us on a daily basis, never mind put up official government sites with pure propaganda. All kinds of oversight has been demolished, thousands of criminals get pardoned because... well, we know why. Experienced military get removed because they might object to the mad whims. Several violations of direct Constitutional laws with no consequence. Grifting like we've never seen before. Punishing states by withholding already approved funds. Sending a personal gestapo to occupy american cities. Literally EVERYTHING has gotten worse in the last year, sans the stock market, and there's clearly shenanigans going on there too. Although there's really nothing else to do with your money since the dollar dropped 15% this year.
We won't recover from this unless there's a huge reckoning. And I'm not convinced it can happen under the current format.
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u/IIIllIIlllIlII 2d ago
I remember when, during trumps first term, people said “whew, lucky this guy is incompetent and doesn’t know how to make things happen”
Then we have him a 4 year planning period and he’s come back and destroyed the USA in less than a year.