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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
Trump surrounded by MAGAt loyalists:
Farquaad is such an apt comparison.
Brace all you want you piece of shit, you’re still gonna burn.
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)
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.
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.
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
And how many more months until then?
Just don’t have elections, then. Or just say the GOP won and contest everywhere, losing GOP reps refuse to leave until the election is ‘fair’. Never admit it’s fair and never leave. Then the takeover is complete as they never have to give up their positions.
I’m not confident at all, that if Trump and the GOP tried to refuse to leave, the mechanisms intended to remove them, will be allowed to function. The GOP controls everything right now, which means all the mechanisms of power, and with it the authority of those positions within the functioning of government. They can just all agree to act as if they won, just like Trump already tried to do by refusing to concede in 2016. He didn’t have enough loyalists in power that time. This time around they control everything and are ensuring loyalists hold those positions so when Trump demands to stay president, all those positions** of government act like he is. That’s when civil disobedience of bureaucrats and military starts happening, or civil war erupts, or America is a completely fascist state.
Yea they don’t even need to try to steal the election this time, it’s already stolen. These people aren’t leaving they are entrenched by the crimes they are committing. They can’t let law and order come back or they risk losing everything.
Remember when the vote was between an old, richbitch, white, fat, senile narcissist preying on girls and women and with no clue about business or government; and a younger, black woman with experience in government and a career built on prosecuting predators? That was a slam dunk, wasn’t it?
YOU WILL VOTE FOR OUR CORPORATE STOOGE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!
I would have been happy with as little as “not voting for a convicted felon and sex offender”, but here we are. I naively believed the US want that full of shitty hateful people. Boy was I wrong.
I’d have voted for a felon and sex offender - if they were honest, owned up to their shit, did their time, made amends if possible, and made genuine and necessary changes and worked on not being a pos.
I would trust that 100x more than almost any politician.
But that is so far from trump who is just a piece of shit.
There should have been a primary, Biden promised that he would be a one time president
And many young democrats didn’t vote for her because she wasn’t saying the right things about Palestinians. That worked out well for them.
I have yet to actually see any numbers giving this statement any sort of credibility.
Kamala got more votes than any democratic candidate has ever gotten, how does play into the whole “they didn’t vote”? The reality is though, that Trump was much better at getting people to vote, both by number, but also by location. Trump spent 4 years terrifying people into thinking if they didn’t vote for him, the democrats would murder babies everywhere and unleash millions of rapists upon the country. Obviously none of that was true, but enough people thought it was to terrify them into voting, because they’ve spent the past 18-50 years being brainwashed by fascists.
People voted, but fascist propaganda won.
That worked out well for them.
The democrat party? Yes, the Democrat party and their candidate really screwed-the-pooch on that one.
Elections require enthusiasm to win
To be fair, Trump promised to stop the wars, and he’s never lied before so they had to take him at his word to save Palestine. It was truly noble tbf.
I wouldn’t trust him if he said 2+2=4 at this point.
This is the main reason she lost, besides Teump cheating
Tell us again why she had to support Israel in spite of losing voters?
to keep a coalition in congress? the one thing the dems and republicans agree on is Israel, she wasn’t going to alienate herself politically to appease a few nut jobs who were not going to be convinced otherwise. Try being an appeasable voter base and you may be appeased at some point.
to keep a coalition in congress?
A coalition with whom exactly? I suppose that since Trump also backed the genocide, these people are now in a coalition with him instead if we’re following this logic. That means both the Dems and Republicans are aligned with Trump and you don’t see the issue with this?
she wasn’t going to alienate herself politically to appease a few nut jobs who were not going to be convinced otherwise
And yet thats exactly what she did with this and several other aspects of her campaign.
Try being an appeasable voter base and you may be appeased at some point.
“Be happy with spoiled table scraps or you won’t receive any more spoiled table scraps” is all I hear from this. Since when is it the voter base that needs to appease their leaders in order for those leaders to win elections? That is insanity.
She alienated herself from like 2% of the population that went and voted 3rd party. Low voter participation was the real winner off the election, turns out more people don’t care to vote at all. The non-voters who make up another 30% of the country don’t give a fuck about a terrorist shithole that’s soon to be a glorious trump hotel and a permanent US military base. Once again you are in the radical fringe, you have no voting base for anyone to gain or lose. We’re confident in your Jill Stien Votes in 2028 as im as confident a non-voters not gonna vote. We’re all slaves to Russian sponsored partisanship. Yay
I didn’t say be happy. I just said I can’t understand given a binary outcome you chose the worst and most obvious one. Like it’s a really easy thought process.
Foundation: I really care more about Palestine than any other political issues of our time and I want to Help! Useful info: My country is the most powerful influential country in the world and I get to choose who leads it, this will directly effect the amount of suffering in Palestine. Choices: a fucking rapist. or a prosecutor who has worked in the same office for the last 4 years. Results: voted for a rapist, who then raped my favorite cause. Conclusion: GEONOCIDE JOES FAULT
I love how the ‘alienated’ group is both so large that they’re blamed for her loss even now a year later but also so small that you’re arguing they’re fringe beliefs that weren’t worth appealing to. This is a tactic straight out of the fascist playbook, but I’m not surprised to hear that from someone who refers to Gaza as a “terrorist shithole” as if all those innocent men, women, and children locked in a literal cage deserve to be blown into a red mist just for existing.
These are such radical fringe beliefs that governments around the world have been implementing laws banning support for Gaza. Trump cracked down on universities across the country because they’re so fringe. The UK banned clothing showing support for Palestine because so few people are doing it. The ICC released arrest warrants for Netanyahu because they’re a fringe organization. It all makes so much sense 🙄
Low voter participation was the real winner off the election, turns out more people don’t care to vote at all.
The turnout for the '24 election was the second highest in recorded history, so you’re just talking out of your ass here. Furthermore non-voters wouldn’t have swayed the outcome at all. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
I just said I can’t understand given a binary outcome you chose the worst and most obvious one. Like it’s a really easy thought process.
There’s a lot you don’t seem to understand. Perhaps consider that it isn’t really a binary choice and both of the options were the worst ones. Maybe consider that we’re a nation with hundreds of millions of people and that two darlings dictated to us by two private organizations aren’t the extent of possibilities.
We’re confident in your Jill Stien Votes in 2028 as im as confident a non-voters not gonna vote.
Now the strawman argument? Who said anything about Jill Stein?
We’re all slaves to Russian sponsored partisanship. Yay
You say as you spew a bunch of propaganda.
Conclusion: GEONOCIDE JOES FAULT
But I thought these were just fringe beliefs from a tiny minority of people that had no effect on anything?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections#cite_note-:0-8
Here’s a nice little spreadsheet that actually covers the voter participation. It really helps that they made 20 million voters ineligible, and the voting age population grew allowing for that high turnout number. Percentage wise it was slightly above average when it comes to participation of voting age people. Furthermore 100 million non-voters is who you try to attract during elections, not the 2 million crazies that vote 3rd party.
Lmaooo im just skim reading this and second highest in recorded history. Bro gtfoh. is that by voter participation or due to the fact the country’s population and eligible voter base was the highest it’s been in recorded history? Im not gonna read the rest of the shit because I literally credit the non-voters for winning the election. I just pointed fun at the 1.5% of the country that voted 3rd party on some fringe issues that you made up in your imagination. Now go ahead and type more disingenuous bullshit aint no one gonna read. Voter participation vs turn out lol. tough to differentiate these concepts I know.
Harris was a crap candidate.
Honestly she was an establishment candidate. She was not very charismatic, but she understood law, procedure, protocol, international relationships. She would have been a mediocre president, but she was in fact the best candidate. How anyone could come to any other conclusion is mind boggling. Please turn off your Russian propaganda source.
She was a shit candidate that polled so poorly that she didn’t even get 1% of the vote in the two primaries she ran in in 2020. She had no charisma whatsoever and was known for celebrating her own career of locking up minorities for nonviolent drug crimes. It was up to her to motivate people to vote for her. Nobody owed her anything. She lost to Donald Fucking Trump of all people after he screwed things up once already. That’s all anyone needs to know about her. No Russian help needed.
“She lost to Donald Trump” ya that’s totally a poor reflection on her and not you. I get it, she was not likeable, she should have never been the candidate, it was undemocratic how the election happened. I agree with all that. End of the day you had a simple choice between two transparent options, and you still think you did the right thing, while crying about the consequences.
She was fine compared to most others
She was shit compared to most others especially the 9 (iirc) other candidates she primaried against in 2020.
Don’t do that, don’t give us hope…
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This.
That’s not fair. Neanderthals weren’t actually that dumb.
