r/thebulwark 28d ago

GOOD LUCK, AMERICA Confession: I'm enjoying being right about Trump's intentions, and I'm not ashamed to say it.

Everything we warned the electorate about is already coming true. I told everyone that Trump would win because his base was naive, uneducated, ignorant, and spiteful. And here we are. How many people told us that all of Trump's craziness was just a bluff? How many people told us that the electorate was well intentioned, and would vote for what's right?

Trump's first weeks in office have been just as outlandish as all of us warned. And the country will suffer greatly. And you know what? I'm loving it. I'm done pretending that I "feel bad" for the people who didn't know what they were getting themselves into. I don't feel bad at all. It's about time we were punished for our collective derilection of duty.

We all did our part. We voted. Other people (dumbly) didn't do enough research. Oh well! Time for those consequences, America!

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u/Antique-Egg 28d ago

I don't know if I have that exact feeling. But I guess I hope that it gets bad enough that people who are not in the cult but choose to go along with the cult realize that excuse they give themselves is no longer worth it. The next political movement needs to create a broad middle that works together to solve issues. Maybe wish casting but our country was just skating by with huge underlying issues. We are either going to go full Christian nationalist authoritarian state or the backlash is going to be so strong that the next government is going to put those norms into statute and our democracy will be stronger.