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| title | date | draft |
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| Wait, it was all gaslighting? Always has been | 2025-01-21T17:15:41+01:00 | true |
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.