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SanAndreasX said:

sc94597 said:

I am starting to think Trump is our 21st century Hoover at this rate. 

If things continue like this first week, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S (and the world of course) are in a depression in a month or two and the GOP tries to impeach him or 25th amendment him to save themselves from becoming a multi-decade opposition-only party at the national level like they were in the New Deal consensus period. 

The thing about dictators is they have to at least convince people in the beginning that they are making things better. That requires some degree of material advancement. Cutting programs haphazardly might be appealing to the 5% of the population who are right-wing libertarians, but certainly won't help you when people. 

And of course Trump doesn't care, but the only thing keeping him from being impeached is that he is popular among the same voters that congressional Republicans need for votes. The moment that becomes untrue, what do they have to lose by using him as a scapegoat?

Let's hope that's all he is. The problem is, the Southern Baptist Church and other evangelical churches have spent the past 50 years grooming generations of people in the South for someone like Trump. That kind of programming is going to be hard to overcome.

My concern is that Trump will become the American version of Ferdinand Marcos - decades of robbing the people blind and enriching his family at the public's expense, installing his family in Congress. They so thoroughly whitewashed Marcos's regime in the Phlippines that Ferdinand Marcos Jr. won the 2022 election in a landslide. 

People's bellies will wake them up. No individual in politics is safe from the beast that is American consumerism. It is the real religion of the U.S. Evangelicals, for all their loudness, are a small minority that are dwindling in numerical power. Trump didn't win because of them. 

The problem with comparing the U.S to developing countries is that people become more angry when they lose something they've been accustomed to having than when they lose some potentiality.  

The hissy-fit that was the post-Covid right-wing shift of the American population was because Walmarts are no longer 24 hours and service workers no longer want to be abused and quit. Imagine what happens when most Americans are actually skipping meals.