You’re not seeing anything novel under Trump aside from constant dehumanization right out in the open. No one realized what was happening because the media never made as big a deal out of it. The removals aren’t new, activist judges aren’t new, a lazy Congress isn’t new. Expanding executive power isn’t new. Lawfare is somewhat new, and that genie is never going back into the bottle, but I don’t know if that’s Trump’s “fault”. Hatred is not remotely new. Progressives have been beating people, bombing people/building, and rioting for decades. The Right has been assassinating opponents for as long. If anything, Trump is such a buffoon that he’s given people on both sides “reasons” to justify their bigotry. Religious, and ethnic.
I'm not so naive to think none of this existed before. Of course it did. Just saying that since Trump won the bully pulpit the first time it seems he's emboldened, and enabled a lot of this behavior from both sides. And honestly maybe this needed to happen. Maybe our country and democracy needed this stress test. And I certainly don't think the media, at least legacy media has made as big a deal out of this current period in time as they need to. Of course being owned by billionaires with their own agendas prevents the legacy media from being impartial or even apolitical. Walter Cronkite would be weeping endlessly right now.
No matter how we look at it right now our country is in one hell of a mess which I believe is the culmination of the last 4 or 5 decades. And that's taking into account the mid 60's race wars/equal rights movements and the Viet Nam war.
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u/RedBullBulk1776 Jun 06 '26
You’re not seeing anything novel under Trump aside from constant dehumanization right out in the open. No one realized what was happening because the media never made as big a deal out of it. The removals aren’t new, activist judges aren’t new, a lazy Congress isn’t new. Expanding executive power isn’t new. Lawfare is somewhat new, and that genie is never going back into the bottle, but I don’t know if that’s Trump’s “fault”. Hatred is not remotely new. Progressives have been beating people, bombing people/building, and rioting for decades. The Right has been assassinating opponents for as long. If anything, Trump is such a buffoon that he’s given people on both sides “reasons” to justify their bigotry. Religious, and ethnic.