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