She shared this the other day and I realized she was 100% on the money and profound.
You know how in John 11 we saw a Sadducee high priest unknowingly give a prophecy
" But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,"
My mom pointed out that the leftists are unknowingly saying the truth. They may have convinced themselves that they're protesting Trump and may have convinced themselves that holding signs saying "no kings" is about Trump, but they're actually saying what they really believe. Most of them are deeply, deeply anti-Christian and anti-Christ in their attitude and Jesus is the King of kings. Like the end times generations who shake their fist at God during the tribulation, the leftists are unkowingly declaring what is on their heart. They're saying no to the actual King of kings, we'll be our own god.
It's just like caiaphas. In their mind that sign is all about Trump, but I think it's a clever thing where just like how caiaphas thought he was making a pragmatic statement about how to deal with Jesus, his evil scheme was unknowingly being spoken as prophecy.
Likewise I think it's the same with the leftists, unknowingly declaring something deeper while thinking within their mind it's about Trump because of the echo chamber and the TDS delusions.
It's difficult to gauge any of this post-scamdemic, but I know lefties whose lives materially improved under the first Trump administration, and yet they were absolutely miserable simply because orange man was president. Subconsciously, they would rather have a shittier life under a "good" president. Their perception of every event in their lives was contingent upon whoever was in the white house.
A placebo/windmill effect can have real health consequences on a person. It's why REAL medical studies will test both their product vs placebo AND their product vs the mere passage of time/nothing. Because placebos do actually, somehow, help. "The mind makes it real", power of prayers, meme magic, bolstered by belief, whatever you want to call it.
They probably were, indeed, quite miserable having higher purchasing power, lower crime rates, healthier lives, fewer wars, etc. All because they needed to take a bitter pill of "your candidate was objectively the worse choice, and the better one got in".