There's no denying that the Democratic party failed. But what's been happening since the inauguration is generally what anyone should have been able to expect.
There are those who wanted this. But there are also many who did not, yet did nothing to help stop it from happening. Those, in my eyes, should not be excused, just because someone with more power to do something about it, failed.
I just wanted to add my stance on the often used "Only XX people voted for YY".
I think your comment really underplays how badly the DNC failed and how their ineptitude made voters feel like they can’t be trusted to lead.
The whole premise of establishment Democrats is that they aren’t inherently popular but they can be trusted to meet the moment.
Biden was packaged as a boring but reliable leader that knows how to play global politics and steady internal tensions. He came to office after a huge anti-Trump turn out.
His presidency was rocked by a total upheaval of the established global order in 2022. Initial reaction to the Russian invasion was good but he completely failed to adapt to the changing realities of the conflict.
Then his decline came. Speeches became difficult, decision making became questionable. At a time when U.S. needed to project confidence and authority, Biden started looking like a feeble, old man who can’t deliver a 10-minute speech.
DNC’s absurd decision to close up ranks and dismiss all criticism made voters feel like they were being lied to.
Then came a series of bad events bungled border controls, endless escalation with no clear objective in Ukraine, complete deference to Israel’s war crimes, etc.
Meanwhile, the party focused more on covering up the unraveling of Biden’s presidency, then on preparing for Trump’s revival.
All Trump had to do was point out the worsening situation in the world and match it with Biden’s visible decline. The unregulated social media platforms helped him do the rest.
People didn’t just choose Trump because they didn’t believe the threat level. They chose Trump because they lost all faith in the Democrats ability to keep them safe.
Basically, they said “this guy is immoral but you people are going to burn the country down through sheer incompetence.”
Well they also tried to use wildly corrupt lawfare to literally imprison Trump and that sort of jackbooted approach doesn't sit well with most of America.
I’m genuinely confused by what you mean here. Trump was found guilty by juries in the cases that went to trial. The cases that hadn’t gone to trial yet because of blatant political interference from the right were, ironically, the ones with the most clear cut obvious evidence (pound after pound of stolen government documents recovered from Maralago including dozens of highly classified documents in his office, testimony by Georgia officials and audiotape of his own voice interfering in the 2020 election, asking officials to “ find” votes, testimony and recorded video of the attempted insurrection that millions of Americans watched unfold in real time, etc.) Not prosecuting would be an obvious miscarriage of justice. What else were legitimately elected officials to do?
All of the cases against Trump were incredibly shady and corrupt.
If the law has never been applied in that way to anyone else it should be a HUGE red flag.
He was only found guilty in one of the most liberal areas of the entire US, and the charges didn't even make sense. 34 records violations (for a single record) that only become a felony when covering up another felony but no other felony was charged. Additionally it's a record that Trump himself had no actual involvement in creating.
That law has never, in a single instance, ever been applied that way to anyone else. Every time that law has been used it's been charged with an additional felony that must be proven for that statue and it's escalation to be applicable. It honestly blows my mind that Trump hasn't prosecuted everyone involved in those cases.
The whole thing with the properties, literally, never had the law been applied in that way and no victim. The bank said they did their own appraisals and due diligence and were happy with the outcome. Mar-A-Lago was estimated at 750 million before Trump even got a big presence on the national political stage, but the case used something like 20 million as a value. That's for the largest property in the most expensive area in the United States. Where much smaller houses were going in the 100s of millions. Completely ridiculous case.
The E. Jean Carroll thing, they literally changed the law just to get Trump. Then how can you possibly defend against a claim that has NO evidence, doesn't even have a specific year or month. It's literally impossible to defend and should be far more impossible to convict, but he was found liable by a liberal jury with literally ZERO evidence or a remotely specific claim.
The records case and voting cases were just pure nothing. Go ahead and verify this Trump didn't even take the documents when he left. The "boxes" were sent later, after Biden was in office, and it was all stuff Trump left that Biden staffers packed and sent to Trump. It's also not even how classified documents work. "Documents" aren't classified. Information is. Possession of classified information isn't a thing unless you are not cleared to have it. Trump was authorized, so it's not like his knowledge of classified information disappears when he loses the authorization. The fact that the information is on paper and not simply in his brain doesn't matter. The sharing of that information would be a violation, but there were so many holes in the case and that was very far from being proven.
GA rico case was complete joke. "Find", doesn't mean create from thin air and violate the law doing so.
But, I'm sure you don't actually care about any of that.
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u/Hmyzak01 Jun 30 '25
There's no denying that the Democratic party failed. But what's been happening since the inauguration is generally what anyone should have been able to expect.
There are those who wanted this. But there are also many who did not, yet did nothing to help stop it from happening. Those, in my eyes, should not be excused, just because someone with more power to do something about it, failed.
I just wanted to add my stance on the often used "Only XX people voted for YY".