As the writer notes at the end, the longer Congress doesn’t respond, the more normalized this becomes. So even if Trump and Elon leave in January 2029, the next Republican President will have seen that Congress didn’t respond and enact their own cuts to programs they don’t like.
That’s the lesson here: power, once taken, is never given back.
The_Raime on
Good article. If the US still exists in 4 years there needs to be a serious detrumpification of our government, institutions, and especially the Republican party.
The US cannot continue to exist if this shit is allowed to happen during every single Republican admin going forward.
justbuildmorehousing on
>Unfortunately, the sheer depth of American exceptionalism is such that this country’s political, media and economic elites have a difficult time believing that anything can fundamentally change for the worse.
I think this is absolutely the case for average Joe USA too. People are so used to things always working out for America that theyll watch Elon Musk running the constitution through a shredder and just think ‘huh thats weird but things will be fine’
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Yeah, this is not good for my mental health.
As the writer notes at the end, the longer Congress doesn’t respond, the more normalized this becomes. So even if Trump and Elon leave in January 2029, the next Republican President will have seen that Congress didn’t respond and enact their own cuts to programs they don’t like.
That’s the lesson here: power, once taken, is never given back.
Good article. If the US still exists in 4 years there needs to be a serious detrumpification of our government, institutions, and especially the Republican party.
The US cannot continue to exist if this shit is allowed to happen during every single Republican admin going forward.
>Unfortunately, the sheer depth of American exceptionalism is such that this country’s political, media and economic elites have a difficult time believing that anything can fundamentally change for the worse.
I think this is absolutely the case for average Joe USA too. People are so used to things always working out for America that theyll watch Elon Musk running the constitution through a shredder and just think ‘huh thats weird but things will be fine’