okay understood. I agree he has the mandate.
the only way I see them not getting worse is through sheer incompetence, not for lack of effort. this is a main plank in trump's platform. and they've been screaming about it all campaign. I really don't think they're going to continue business as usual.
I am trying to accept that the relative freedom and ease with which I have enjoyed the first half of my life is going to disappear for my remaining years. sucks that it's going that way, but I doubt we ever see a more successful, healthy, thriving America than the current version. it will take decades to recover from the devastation to come, if there is ever a full recovery.
no one who is gonna be in his next administration, it seems
The only guard rail left, is the big business people who he is debt to. Their couch loving puppet is in the wings ready to obey if Trump doesn't do what they want.
The leverage may not be purely financial.
which is a reasonable point to make, but distinct in my mind from whether that means we should try and prevent the whole mass deportation thing
One of the first executive orders will be to keep transgenders out of women's sports, because it is so ramped and important.
Zeihan argues that this came with the ending of the Cold War. Essentially countries received American security, assurances and pretty much unfettered access to the American marketplace. This was a deal that provided Americans with security at the expense of their working class.
I think America is split nearly 50-50 on this issue. but the side who doesn't want to just swept the elections, and to the victor goes the spoils
