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Trump is the fascism vaccine: He is the figurehead for malevolent forces that have been at work for many many years in the twisty tunnels underneath City America, and are now strong enough to come up onto the regular streets -- but he comes in weakened form. He's enough of a neutered fool to give the system time to learn to recognize the danger, and react accordingly in the future when it comes about for real. If it had been anyone else on January 6th, with competent, prepared execution that any adult who'd spent his career surviving in politics would have done, then all the people in the federal government who'd tried to stand in his way would already be in prison, and US-hosted Lemmy instances would already be required by law to interface with the software that monitored for unpatriotic postings and users. Also Gaza would, I think, be a massive graveyard, a haunting, mostly-empty place that most of the world tried not to think about.
I am 0% joking or exaggerating about any of that. It doesn't mean that Project 2025 is safe by any means, but this is actually the safest possible means and details by which it could come to us, and if we can't deal with this version, then that's on us.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people pissed at our current immune system, complaining that it's too old and weak to meet the standard of perfection they demand immediately. So instead of trying to keep it alive and build a strengthened immune system over time, they're planning to just let the patient die, despite knowing how that would make their lives many times worse. It's up to the rest of us to keep the patient alive and work to improve its health, in spite of them.
The young and inexperienced are disillusioned. Theyve not yet experienced that it takes years for any meaningful change to happen.
At the same time, we also have bad faith actors trying to focus our gaze only where they want it, (e.x. the accounts that only insist on posting news of the Gazan genocide) thus trying to ensure that the youth in this country checks out of any meaningful political action in this country.