Summary
Trump’s speech to Congress was a campaign-style tirade filled with falsehoods, personal grievances, and attacks on Democrats.
He exaggerated economic issues, blamed Biden for inflation, and misrepresented Social Security data. He renewed imperialist rhetoric about annexing Greenland and the Panama Canal while distorting U.S. aid figures to Ukraine.
Trump spent more time on culture war issues than policy, vowing to end “wokeness.” He also falsely claimed his legal troubles were political persecution.
Meanwhile, markets reeled from his new tariffs, which he dismissed. The speech showed deep partisan divides and his continued reliance on misinformation.
The lack of substantive opposition to Republicans for decades has been a big reason why they’ve been able to slide us into fascism. The sooner people like you wake up to this, the sooner we have a chance to actually do something about it.
I would love for the Democrats to be further left but trying to equate their business-as-usual ineffectiveness to Trump’s attempts to start wars with Denmark and Canada while cozying up to Russia and letting his Nazi buddy dismantle the government is fucking idiotic.
And yelling about how they suck everytime someone criticizes Trump starts to feel disingenuous after a while.
I would love to understand why anyone should expect the Democratic Party to improve if they aren’t called out or held accountable for either their long history of fucking this up, or their continued active fucking up as was displayed in full force last night.
I agree that Democrats aren’t as bad as Republicans. But clinging to their slim moral superiority (and it is slim when you consider their actual record), and downplaying decades of fascist enablement as merely ‘ineffectiveness’ really demonstrates how not up-to-the-task some of the constituents are. It signals that nothing is going to change and we can expect fascism to march onward with Democrats slowly starting to pick up the mantle and join in. Don’t accuse me of hyperbole, I just listened to the Democratic response in which she waxed on nostalgic for Ronald Fucking Reagan.
I suppose that I shouldn’t blame the Democratic electorate too much, as the party has never (in my lifetime) shown leadership on policy or cultivated expectations from its supporters beyond “Republicans bad so you have no choice”. That doesn’t work, as demonstrated by decades of eroding support, lack of legislation, lost elections, and an Overton window that only ever moves in one direction. Calling this out is not idiotic, it’s rational. From a purely self-interested point of view, it’s idiotic for the party to ignore and deride this sentiment.