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title: "Wait, it was all gaslighting? Always has been"
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date: 2025-01-21T17:15:41+01:00
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Trump got sworn into office a second time. This was forseeable. Given just how
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close the 2020 election was there had never been any assurance that the extreme
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divide of the USA had shifted into the other direction. Coronavirus and, more
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imporantly, the vaccinations really shifted into high gear during Biden's term.
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And then there was the invasion of Ukraine. Undeniably it affected living
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standards in most western countries. Economically as well, but mostly it
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destroyed some fundamental trusts of people in how the modern world works. All
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of this weight got shifted on Bidens administration. Add to that the _awful_ PR
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of the democrats during that time and the slow burning propaganda campaigns,
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the 2024 election outcome seemed inevitable and unsurprising.
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What did surprise me though was the velocity of Trump's 2025 administration of
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going mask off and pushing through their campaigns. I think decades of slow
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moving liberal conservative politics has sort of soothed most of us into
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thinking that _Project 2025_ is just another political goalpost the
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administration will move towards but never really reach. Just like the climate
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and equity programs of yesteryear, which weren't worth the paper they were
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written on.
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