People forget that Trump's a boomer. He wants to save the America he remembers under Regan, and the one he grew up in under Eisenhower. In addition to the basic difficulties of politics & compromise generally, he wants to save the system that worked 40 years ago.
That America is dead, and something similar could only be built up by the combined herculean efforts of Zoomers, Alpha, and Alpha+1, working together to build something for Alpha+2. None of the Boomers truly understand how bad the situation is because they are too hard-headed to believe that they failed so completely any chance of the world they remember is now physically impossible for their children, their grand children, or even their great grand-children. Gen X might fund it (and for the most part I expect Millennials to stand in the way and oppose it), but that's how far behind we really are. We're not planting trees under which are children will sit. We're standing on a tarmac arguing about how to dig out the asphalt, find a place to put dirt, and figure out where water is going to come from so that we can begin to think about planting a seed for a tree.
Additionally, the rebellion against the Uniparty has been an ongoing struggle for 70 years that has failed almost every time. The John Birch Society, Goldwater, Buchanan, Reagan Revolutionaries, the TEA Party, etc. Most instances have either failed, or failed to have a follow-up success. Trump is the closes thing we have to real wins against the Neo-Liberal (read: Fabian Socialist) establishment that conquered the government almost 140 years ago.
People forget that Trump's a boomer. He wants to save the America he remembers under Regan,
Not just a boomer but a former Democrat for many years, whose only appears Rightward most of the time because of how dramatically that overton window has shifted.
He has moved Right himself on a lot of things over this last decade, but he is way too old and stubborn to make radical changes to his beliefs out of anything but spite. And its why hoping he was going to "save America" was always hyperbole, he is a live grenade tossed into the room to make something happen. And things have changed, however more or less people think they should.
I don't think it's hyperbole to say he was going to save America... from falling off a cliff. That much is true. But bringing about a true American restoration is a different goal entirely.
Right, but you see it in a lot of doomerism and overly MAGA types, where they treat him as an "all or nothing" savior whose every misstep is a sign that its all failed and everything was a lie.
On a long enough timeline I think we can say he "saved" it by reversing some courses and getting some balls rolling, but in the right now it'll feel like barely anything.
I don't agree that it feels like barely anything, we're making massive cultural progress, and we're getting real policy changes in a lot of ways.
Nothing is smooth, and we aren't winning on every front, but that's because we're fighting against every major western institution that exists, and most of the Republican establishment, and nearly all of congress.
People forget that Trump's a boomer. He wants to save the America he remembers under Regan, and the one he grew up in under Eisenhower. In addition to the basic difficulties of politics & compromise generally, he wants to save the system that worked 40 years ago.
That America is dead, and something similar could only be built up by the combined herculean efforts of Zoomers, Alpha, and Alpha+1, working together to build something for Alpha+2. None of the Boomers truly understand how bad the situation is because they are too hard-headed to believe that they failed so completely any chance of the world they remember is now physically impossible for their children, their grand children, or even their great grand-children. Gen X might fund it (and for the most part I expect Millennials to stand in the way and oppose it), but that's how far behind we really are. We're not planting trees under which are children will sit. We're standing on a tarmac arguing about how to dig out the asphalt, find a place to put dirt, and figure out where water is going to come from so that we can begin to think about planting a seed for a tree.
Additionally, the rebellion against the Uniparty has been an ongoing struggle for 70 years that has failed almost every time. The John Birch Society, Goldwater, Buchanan, Reagan Revolutionaries, the TEA Party, etc. Most instances have either failed, or failed to have a follow-up success. Trump is the closes thing we have to real wins against the Neo-Liberal (read: Fabian Socialist) establishment that conquered the government almost 140 years ago.
Not just a boomer but a former Democrat for many years, whose only appears Rightward most of the time because of how dramatically that overton window has shifted.
He has moved Right himself on a lot of things over this last decade, but he is way too old and stubborn to make radical changes to his beliefs out of anything but spite. And its why hoping he was going to "save America" was always hyperbole, he is a live grenade tossed into the room to make something happen. And things have changed, however more or less people think they should.
I don't think it's hyperbole to say he was going to save America... from falling off a cliff. That much is true. But bringing about a true American restoration is a different goal entirely.
Right, but you see it in a lot of doomerism and overly MAGA types, where they treat him as an "all or nothing" savior whose every misstep is a sign that its all failed and everything was a lie.
On a long enough timeline I think we can say he "saved" it by reversing some courses and getting some balls rolling, but in the right now it'll feel like barely anything.
I don't agree that it feels like barely anything, we're making massive cultural progress, and we're getting real policy changes in a lot of ways.
Nothing is smooth, and we aren't winning on every front, but that's because we're fighting against every major western institution that exists, and most of the Republican establishment, and nearly all of congress.
We're punching above our weight.