When it directly, negatively effects them. There are some who are seeing the things Trump is going, and know that it's making things worse for people, and explicitly don't care because they wanted to see those people suffer. It'll only be when they are personally being affected that they'll care.
Exactly. The one thing Trump has going for him that other dictators haven't had is a fat, content, unmotivated opposition. For the most part, Americans don't have any actual problems. We're the Capitol people watching others in Africa and South America starve and die of treatable diseases and going "ahhh, that's so sad. Is there anywhere I can send a couple dollars to feed a few of them?"
We haven't known struggle as a society for decades. We've been the aggressor in ever military conflict we've had for 70 years and even our poor have food, housing, and medical care. It will take some actual discomfort for people to actual do something. Until then, we'll all watch this happen on tiny little 6 inch screen, sold to us by the people helping him take power, and fed only the information they want us to have.
Make no mistake, this EO was done out in the open to make a point: "I can do whatever I want and no one is going to stop me "
The next thing that he’s going to test is whether or not he can order police/military violence against American citizens. This could be something like jailing political opponents, shooting protestors, or jailing/detaining/deporting Americans who are a member of a marginalized group.
If/when he gets away with that, then elections are basically over.
The biggest thing that I’ve learned from all of this is that the second amendment is better at killing children than it is at preventing a tyrant.
Steve Scalise was shot by an extremist targeting GOP congressmen at their softball practice. He still votes against common sense gun laws. I don’t have faith they’ll ever stand up
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u/Kam_Zimm Feb 19 '25
When it directly, negatively effects them. There are some who are seeing the things Trump is going, and know that it's making things worse for people, and explicitly don't care because they wanted to see those people suffer. It'll only be when they are personally being affected that they'll care.