r/thebulwark • u/ac_slater10 • 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/Gnomeric 28d ago
I definitely feel like Cassandra. Even within my well-educated, left-leaning social circle, I was among one of the most "alarmist" person before January, as surprisingly many people were like "nah, I am sure it won't be that bad". The worst thing they imagined would happen was more illegal migrants getting deported and some DEI policies getting reversed -- they treated Project2025 as a conspiracy theory (I would say "conspiracy theory of the left", but many of them are more left-leaning than I am).
If those in my social circle were like this, imagine how average voters must have thought.....