We are the loyal resistance: a sort of rant.
And when I say loyal, I mean to the Constitution and the ideas that make America great.
We are now the loyal resistance. And, by historical standards, we don’t have it that bad. Certainly we are better off than the French Resistance during the 4 years of German occupation, and the partisans in Greece and the Balkans. We’re better off than the brave Czech resistance who suffered terrible reprisals and those who resisted in the Netherlands and Belgium. They had to deal with the SS and the Gestapo we just have Trump and his cronies.
Make no mistake it’s going to be bad but remember that Trump’s approval was underwater most of his presidency. He’s not going to be popular this time around either. He’s talking about 60% tariffs on products from China on DayOne. Hah! The entire period of “Bidenflation” the CPI rose a total of about 25%. How irate are people going to be when most of the things they buy at Walmart, Costco, Sam’s, Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and many other stores go up 60% basically overnight. Even if he then totally eliminated income taxes everyone making less than the median household income would end up with higher costs. Then there will be higher food prices and shortages because his deportation round up will strip farms of the people who pick the crops.
When he eliminates the Department of Education, that will eliminate Federal Student Loans and grants. All that will be left will be loans from commercial banks. Far fewer students will go on to higher education and lots of colleges and Universities will close, especially the smaller private liberal arts institutions without much in the way of an endowment.
Unemployment will start going up again and there will be a recession. People will be sick of Trump by 2026 and that’s when we need to elect Democrats to the House and Senate in enough numbers to take back both.
Trump may not even be president by then; all his siblings are dead and both his parents had dementia. JD Vance will not be popular at all.
We just have to bide our time and keep resisting the worst of Trump’s excesses. We may not win all the time, or at all, but like everything Trump, this presidency too will turn to shit!
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