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It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable.

But as 2025 draws to a close with Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel. Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him. Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the president’s party.

“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg, was violating laws and the constitution,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “The American political process is slow-moving and so he was able to do things that were extraordinary.

“But this is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era. Put another way, rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the Trump mantle and the so-called Maga movement, we may be talking in a year or so about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected with Trump.”

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[–] FE80@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

DNC is working overtime on how to fumble the opportunity.

[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“A wake-up call for America”, just like when the same exact thing happened a few years ago.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder how many wake up calls they need?

[–] TrippyHippy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Many since they are against being woke.

[–] Shteou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Republicans are an enemy of democracy and the constitution

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That fucker had been working as hard as he can to get us into a war so that he can cancel the elections. His eyes lit up here: https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-election-2028-war-zelensky-ukraine

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Can't wait for the DNC to give us the most mediocre selections possible, for 60% of the country to not vote, and for the fascist to once again have a majority.

(Optimistic, I know)

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DNC: we can't allow extremists. Also these conservatives make some great points.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 28 points 2 days ago

DNC: We are sick and tired of MAGA walking over us! We'll only give them half of what they want, and then the other half later.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

They already have. Susan Collins VS Janet Mills in Maine. Unpopular governor running in an unpopular district, against a 40 year incumbent. Pretty sure we're gonna need an independent to steal that seat away, and no good looking candidates with 11 months left to go. Not looking good. Can't wait for the radio commercials.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The DNC loves having people like Trump in office as it means they have to do even less for the people to get votes and power.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They enabled this president

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago

yup. this all could have been avoided. all it would have taken is a few republicans with a moral backbone. but what the punks been saying since the 70s is true: no republicans have a moral backbone, if they did they wouldn't be republicans and most of the democrats don't have moral backbones either

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, it's still win for them, huge win. A lot of the government is destroyed forever, a lot of the elements that were holding the democracy together are now gone, a lot of suffering was inflicted, many people dead. That's all what they wanted and they got it in spades. No matter what, there will be more of that for a foreseeable future.

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And Barron is waiting in the wings. This family will be a thorn in America's side for generations to come.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Thankfully, he's a charisma vacuum, so he will have slightly less of a grip on them. Doesn't matter if the cults persists, but still

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago

Personally, I would like MAGATs to be dragged down by gravity. Then swing a long while.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 107 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Having 2017 deja vu with this one.. Dems will get one term reeling from the fallout, then blamed for every horrible trailing effect and it's back to voting for Eric Trump or whatever other neanderthal GOP craps out.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 2 days ago (8 children)

If they do the same thing as the Biden administration - literally NOTHING - to deal with the serious national security threat that MAGA represents, then yeah, they will come roaring back even worse.

The American people have it in them to do ONE MORE flip of power to Democratic hands, and this time, the Dems better deal with the MAGA threat decisively, or it will be the end of America once and for all.

They need to charge and prosecute every MAGA for EVERY SINGLE crime they've committed. The election fraud of the 2024 election needs to be comprehensively investigated, and Trump's presidency invalidated, along with every single thing his administration did. All of his pardons are invalid, and all the Jan 6 Traitors go back to prison, along with the Honduran president, and all those crooked financial predators he released. All legislation is undone, and even Supreme Court decisions are invalid. The Supreme Court should also be expanded to 13 seats, AFTER Alito and Thomas are impeached, and Thomas and his bulldog wife are prosecuted for corruption and treason.

Every single business deal that Trump and his family made while he was president is invalid, and his entire fortune should be confiscated by the government. They won't need it, the entire family will be in jail, with the possible exception Barron and Tiffany. Tiff will be okay, since she's a gold-digging whore who married a billionaire, but Barron will be just another poor kid from an organized crime family all of whom are serving life sentences.

It should be against the law to name anything in America after Trump, or any other traitor, including Confederate War traitors.

MAGA is a domestic terrorist organization, and should be prohibited from existing.

These are the kinds of things we need the Democrats to do to take our nation back. After that, we can make sure that people get good educations with Critical Thinking Skills, health care, healthy workplaces, decent wages, affordable housing, etc., and are safe from predatory corporations and Sociopathic Oligarchs.

We need Democrats who are WARRIORS, not weakling appeasers.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Democrats - 'Best we can do is a $1500 child tax credit that you can claim once during tax season if you have a child'

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

And only if you earn under $20k per year.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump surrounded by MAGAt loyalists:

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 86 points 2 days ago (16 children)

The Democrats will find a way to completely mess up this opportunity.

Frankly that party needs to go. We'd be better off if there was another dramatic party shift- send the Dems to the way of the Whigs.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I hate to say it but Obama and Obamacare was the last time I actually felt a president was doing a net positive for Americans.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Maybe at the start but not in the watered down, Republican created bill they passedwith zero Republican support. It just further cemented the private healthcare model into law and ensured nobody would revisit it for at least a generation.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Biden’s IRA was an amazing recovery for the country after trump completely fucked the economy. Way better than the watered-down nothingburger that ACA is. Note that it’s not Obama’s fault that the ACA turned to shit, that’s all McConnell being objectively evil and petty.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

There will be a very convenient outbreak of extreme violence. Even though there's no legal provision to do so, Congress will allow Clownstick to "suspend" the Constitution. No election means Republicans hold power permanently.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just don't have elections, then. Or just say the GOP won and contest everywhere, losing GOP reps refuse to leave until the election is 'fair'. Never admit it's fair and never leave. Then the takeover is complete as they never have to give up their positions.

I'm not confident at all, that if Trump and the GOP tried to refuse to leave, the mechanisms intended to remove them, will be allowed to function. The GOP controls everything right now, which means all the mechanisms of power, and with it the authority of those positions within the functioning of government. They can just all agree to act as if they won, just like Trump already tried to do by refusing to concede in 2016. He didn't have enough loyalists in power that time. This time around they control everything and are ensuring loyalists hold those positions so when Trump demands to stay president, all those positions** of government act like he is. That's when civil disobedience of bureaucrats and military starts happening, or civil war erupts, or America is a completely fascist state.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Yea they don't even need to try to steal the election this time, it's already stolen. These people aren't leaving they are entrenched by the crimes they are committing. They can't let law and order come back or they risk losing everything.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 60 points 2 days ago

Y'all going to mention the pedophilia and links to multiple murders or nah?

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I want them to lose EVERY SINGLE RACE. Repeat, EVERY SINGLE RACE. Followed by an impeachment and removal of a pedo rapist that has broken every law that exists.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (22 children)

Remember when the vote was between an old, richbitch, white, fat, senile narcissist preying on girls and women and with no clue about business or government; and a younger, black woman with experience in government and a career built on prosecuting predators? That was a slam dunk, wasn't it?

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

There should have been a primary, Biden promised that he would be a one time president

[–] graysonuniverse@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

YOU WILL VOTE FOR OUR CORPORATE STOOGE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Brace all you want you piece of shit, you're still gonna burn.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 25 points 2 days ago

'Dragged down'? Oh, no. They don't get to wash away their complicity by blaming this on one man. They've been dragging themselves down for decades prior to Trump.

[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Unanimously voted worst president ever BEFORE Americans re-elected him with an even more aggressive agenda.. I don’t really see any surprise here

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