Sidelines No More
Sidelines No More
Alt text: Wrestler AJ Styles laughing with a label of "Trump sending in the military." Unbeknownst to him his opponent, The Undertaker, is standing behind him menacingly with the the label "Mass of protesters coming off the sidelines."
He wants more resistance to justify escalation. But he's going to escalate regardless of if we resist or not. So the best course of action is overwhelming resistance, more than he bargained for, more than he can handle. He's already polling unfavorably on all political matters, across the board. We can sink him even lower.
The move toward authoritarianism is frightening, but the 2 things give me hope right now are 1) the size and endurance of protests so far 2) the fact that Trump is terrible at executing long-term plans / TACO. If we keep this up he will give up while claiming victory.
Long-term, the scary thing is his advisors (e.g., Stephen Miller) telling the next authoritarian who gets elected "I could have made Trump a dictator if he didn't suck. That was the practice run, you ready for the real deal?"
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