alt Hacker NewsIt’s wild watching America skydive into anocracy this quickly, but that’s where we are, I guess.
A few days ago I was worried they might pull all their troops out of Europe. Today… I think I’m more worried they won’t.
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actionfromafar • 02/19/2025
Had the same thought.
The inflection point has been quick - and I think a lot of that is due to Musk injecting himself into the process, and Trumpists spending the last four years organizing. They know they wasted the potential of their last term and don't intend to make the same mistake again.
But people have been warning about this all the way back during the alt-right/Tea Party days of Obama, which Trump was a direct response to.
It's been like watching the slowest train crash in progress, all while half the country accuses the other half of derangement for believing trains are even real.