Yeah, that’s pretty much it. The Trumpers loved to scream “she has no policies!” The fact is, she did. You can still go read about them on her website. She has policies that I largely agree with in fact. But she never talked about them outside of a few key points. We live in a country where people can’t focus on anything outside of their individual bubble. They don’t care about what you’re going to do long term. They want their grocery bill to be cheaper and they want home loan interest to go down immediately. Trump promised all those things — things he probably won’t deliver. But that’s ok because at least he said it, right? And when he inevitably doesn’t do those things, the people that voted for him will make excuses just like they did last time. For instance, when he didn’t build the wall that his entire campaign was run on. The first thing his followers said was “well that’s because the libs wouldn’t let him.” No, that isn’t how it works. When you promise to do something, you’re taking that part out of the equation. Trump didn’t say “I’m going to TRY to get your wall built.” He said he was GOING to get it built. Big difference. But lying in politics… standard procedure.
The one piece of credit I’ll give him is that the economy, at least down here where I lived, was in a really good state during his term. I know it wasn’t great in states like California, but it was absolutely worse during COVID.
That being said, in a post-COVID world— Even with it being
post-COVID, companies won’t want to return to the old, lesser profit margins. Trump simply isn’t going to recreate that better economy that the “middle class” (poor, but not nearly in poverty) has prioritized over all else. A lot has changed since his term in 2016, and there is simply no going back. Hatred and other policies aside, which I refuse to give him or his supporters the benefit of the doubt on, I can at least say that every week, every day, has been a fucking struggle in this economy, and even getting a little sick will put me into debt if I get that unlucky. It wasn’t like that previously, and I’ll give him then that credit— Him then, but not him now, not that it excuses everything else.
But also Trump won because he hates the same people that the people who voted for him hate. And much like in 2016, he looks absolutely terrified that he won. His publicity stunt went too far. Again. People in this country are extremely scared right now. The amount of people I’ve seen say they’re going to buy a gun, they don’t feel safe in their homes, they’re worried armed militias are going to put them in camps — not even 24 hours after the fact. How things are going to go for the next 4 years? It’s going to be devastating on people’s mental health.
It doesn’t feel like a publicity stunt this time— I really do feel like he’s in too deep and has fully bought in to what he was selling after his supporters became a fucking cult. That’s the truth of it, they are genuinely a cult. There’s a whole country music anthem about how he’s the chosen one. I myself am Catholic and very pro-religion (Not pro-intolerance), and I find this behavior very alarming. If Trump is synonymous and/or on the same level in conversation as God, that is deeply disturbing.
And as someone with many LGBT friends and family and friends who are immigrants, they’re all terrified. While I don’t think Trump’s election is a problem for the LGBT, the Senate, SC, governor, and House elections are. None of it directly affects me, but it doesn’t need to— That’s empathy and compassion, that’s what my faith was supposedly built on, and that’s something all these “Christians” have completely forgotten. Personally speaking, if Trump wants to use military force on whoever the enemy may possibly be, then even I will be buying a gun myself. None of us should go quietly, and I will not.
