Gosh.. Who enabled this I wonder. What major informers of voters was a key proponent of 'actually Trump is probably a better choice than Biden'.

Fuck.. if only we had the capability to search the past for answers.

You'll never convince me that Elon didn't rig the election.

America didn't give Trump a second chance. That implies he was caught and convicted, and punished for something he did wrong.

He did not spend a single day in jail. His sentence in New York was effectively commuted.

He was never even charged at the federal level.

He was allowed to continue his tyranny.

Because Democrats refused to actually hold him to account.

The US put a gun to its head in 2016. In 2024, it pulled the trigger.

A Project 2029 cannot be a collection of Democratic Party agenda items. It must articulate a broad new conception of the nation’s political order — one that will guide the way a future Democratic-led government might wield power. Above all, Democrats must have a plan for reconstruction — for building something new on the wreckage of what President Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party have wrought — not restoration of what was.

The whole article puts eloquent prose to the thoughts in my head (looking from outside the US) as to what the USA needs to recover post-Trump; it's more than striving to going back to normal.

The issue is that centrist Democratic voices have been kind of developing their vision by committee over any aims to make it cohesive and comprehensive. In my view the plan has to recognize and tackle these three things:

• Internal complacency within the Democratic party to do good things for people rather than just talk about them
• Reforming the outdated systems that simply relied on trust that the system wouldn't corrupt itself or overlook corruption.
• Fixing the destruction caused by the Trump administration, then taking steps to prevent a cult like Congress and a bought-and-paid-for judiciary to surrender the republic to the executive.

The important thing is you can't grandfather in the corruption while you fix it.

We broke it giving him a first chance.

Trump is a symptom of a problem that’s been brewing since the heritage foundation formed in the 1970s.

My will to live (edit: In the US).

They broke my will to live (edit: In the US).

A broken country elected a broken leader.

America was already broken, that’s why trump got elected. Everything from education to financial security is an ongoing disaster. Then trump & co. destroyed the rest.

America was broken before this. Giving Trump a second chance (or a first) was a symptom.

I think it's pulling the bandaid off. The US was already on its way to being the capitalist beast it is. Getting eyes on this is great and gives the chance for other countries to get more leverage.

And the folks that weren't planning on waking up got their call.

I'm for second chances.....when the stakes are lower. A waiter messes up a few people's orders, you give him a chance to improve. A president of a country steals classified documents and attempts a violent coup to stay in power, you ban from ever being in a position of power again

Naw. America stopped pretending when it reelected Trump.

(Nick cage "you don't say" meme)

The USA has been falling apart since 1975 and voting for MAGA, not once, but twice is accelerating the process.

Broke ain't the right word. Revealed could be used, or accelerated.

For 10 years every media outlet on the country has had to repeatedly show his face and play his voice throughout every single day of broadcast and publication. I'm tired bro, I'm so tired. I can't live in a world where every screen in the country is his face constantly staring at me. So I turned it off. I'm not ignoring what's going on in the world, but everywhere that normalized him lost me. NY Times, NPR, all of it. What broke in this country is I'm not the customer anymore of our traditional media system. And when he attacks those institutions, what am I supposed to do about it? Cry? You made your bed.

The total lack of selfawareness is staggering.