While I am pessimistic about Trumpism and the dominant influence of the mindless MAGA cult coming to an end in the very near future, there are some things which I am optimistic about.
One of them is that once this nightmare is over, a lot of people who are very enthusiastic supporters of Trump today will deny that they were ever taken by him or enthusiastic supporters.
Another thing that I am confident about is that Trump will not simply be forgotten. A lot of people, especially his supporters, seem to think that he is just another president. That all of this is just another "normal" president, and that people are whining and crying like little snowflakes and exaggerating how bad he is. But that convenient dismissal will be refuted by history, which will indeed remember Trump and the mindless MAGA cult for a long, long time to come. Unfortunately, I suspect that Trump will be remembered, and the United States by it's association with him, for many decades to come.
No, this will not be forgotten. Nor will it be forgiven.
Many people - although unfortunately not nearly enough to end it right now already - see this reality for what it is. But in the future, when people are no longer hypnotized and/or blinded by his cult of personality, he will be remembered in a very dark and sinister light. This era of American history will likely be remembered in a similar way to the way apartheid is remembered in South Africa, unless things grow much, much worse here before all of this is done. And even in the best case scenario, this era will be remembered for when the worst elements of our modern American society had their champion, who brought out the worst in them, and in the nation more generally.
Brian Boyle @brianboy12.bsky.social · 6h
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