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LAST UPDATE | 28 Mar
DONALD TRUMP IS ten weeks into a four-year term. In that time, his administration has launched a voracious assault on the norms and conventions of American democracy.
The country is being led by a cabinet of conspiracy theorists, TV personalities and religious zealots, all of whom secured their place at the top table by positioning themselves as Trump loyalists. There are no voices of reason, no safeguards.
The Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News presenter, this week played a central role in an astonishing revelation that he, alongside other top government officials, used the messaging app Signal to discuss attack plans on Yemen, including launch times.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to the conversation, who broke the story this week. Hegseth first sought to claim no sensitive information was shared. Once Goldberg released the chats, the White House shifted to the claim that sharing attack plans on an open-source messaging app was not an intelligence breach because such plans are not classified. Never has a US cabinet had so little experience and been so dangerously incompetent.
This should be easy pickings for the Democratic Party, but rather than counter the Trumpification of the Republicans, the Democrats are flailing in the wind, directionless. The inability of the Democratic Party to form an effective opposition empowers the Trump administration and widens the ideological rift in American society. The left feels abandoned, while, inversely, those who support Trump and ‘Make America Great Again’ – an extreme protectionist agenda isolating America – grow more emboldened.
A painful display of the Democratic Party’s inability to formulate a response to Trump’s unprecedented takeover was during the president’s joint session of Congress, which saw members raising diminutive placards like bidders in an auction, with toothless statements reading ‘Musk Steals’ and ‘Save Medicaid’. During my recent visit to the Capitol, I could not find a Democratic supporter who was not embarrassed by the spectacle; it was student politics 101 and did not meet the moment.
Weeks later, ten Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the controversial Spending Bill, which will gut Medicaid and directly impact many of the most vulnerable. Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to vote with the Bill, and his directive to fellow members, is emblematic of the problem. If there is to be any hope of recourse, the Democratic Party must urgently change course, and leadership.
There are two options: Occupy the left and lean into firebrands such as Maine Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both of whom command large followings and whose current messaging is resonating within Democratic bases or move further to the centre to bridge the ideological divide. Instinct may favour the former, and there are those who will effectively argue that the problem for the Democrats is that they are already too obtuse; many critics of the Harris/Walz campaign suggest they played it too safe.
However, there needs to be an acceptance that a substantial section of American society has shifted to the right, with many slipping headlong into extremist ideology. As with numerous other countries in which the far-right secures a foothold, the root causes are economic inequality and political alienation, both of which will increase substantially under Trump’s term. To reach those furthest removed from the political system, the Democrats may have to meet them halfway, and there’s evidence that this approach can work.
In the United Kingdom, the Conservatives were in government for 12 years, successfully realising a long-term aspiration of protectionist politicians by removing the United Kingdom from the European Union. Brexit was the great divider, splitting society down opposing ideological lines. Corbyn’s left agenda proved unsuccessful in countering Brexiteers in the 2019 election, prompting an overhaul of the Labour Party’s leadership and strategy, Keir Starmer all but eradicated its left credentials to much criticism from its traditional base and has been robustly referred to as ‘Tory-light’, but this was a deliberate choice by the party and a move that ultimately returned Labour to government in 2024.
In the context of the US, moderate Democrats have had success; Clinton was no Bernie Sanders, while Obama courted Republican policies during his first campaign. The fraying political fabric of American society is now so sheer that adopting a liberal agenda may only wear away the few remaining threads. The Democrats, like Labour, must face this potentiality if there is to be any hope of reclaiming the House in the 2026 midterms.
The US political system is built on the foundation of checks and balances – the three branches, Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, are designed to prevent overreach. The legislative branch has been effectively neutered; the last bastion is the judiciary. The Trump administration knows this, which is why there are concerted efforts to weaken trust in the rule of law.
Earlier this month, Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge challenging his administration’s immigration policies. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt labelled judge James Boasberg “a Democrat activist”. Boasberg was first appointed by Republican President George W. Bush.
MAGA supporters followed suit by targeting Trump-appointed conservative Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett when she voted against the Trump administration’s freeze of USAID funding, labelling the judge a “DEI hire”, a slur now being slung at anyone who isn’t a white man espousing Trump’s view.
To date, the judiciary is holding up; federal judges and the Supreme Court have ruled against the Trump administration, but there is a question as to how long that may last. Trump will soon seek to weigh the judiciary in his favour by appointing a slew of conservative judges with as many as 300 vacancies predicted over the next four years, including 54 currently open posts.
While the Democrats mull over their purpose, the Trump administration will continue at breakneck speed to reshape American democracy with attacks on press freedom, the judiciary, and liberties such as freedom of political thought and religion. The detention of an academic with a green card over his views on Gaza is a test case for limiting freedom of political speech.
The constant bombardment of executive orders, court challenges, and deranged ideas, including the mass displacement and removal of Palestinians from Gaza, is deliberate; over-saturation desensitises society. I could see that firsthand in the US this month, people are disengaging. We are witnessing the annihilation of decades of progress toward mitigating climate change, racial equality and workers’ rights – the impact of which, like Brexit, will be felt for decades and will have far-reaching global consequences. If the Democrats do not rise to action with urgency, there is no blueprint for what might happen next.
Emma DeSouza is a writer and campaigner.
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Thank God Kamala Harris didn’t win. Hopefully Vance takes over after and is president for 8 years!
@common sense: Lock up your sofas!
@common sense: Repairing the neglect of US affairs will take 8 years.
@common sense: Please god that happens.
@honey badger: see, your vulgar juvenile filth is really an echo, an endorsement of what Emma’s article is stating — the left have NOTHING – NADA- ZERO. This kind of comment is about the sum TOTAL of where the democrats really are—— a bile inducing ridiculous gutter attempt at a joke
@Buster Lawless: Oh lordy. In that case, I would recommend that people definitely don’t look up Vance Halloween costumes, whatever they do. And please, for the love God, don’t open this link:
https://x.com/TheRealThelmaJ1/status/1816918493998252509?t=iVOnOR08ghMgCAv1hAOqaQ&s=19
@honey badger: VANCE 2028 – 2036!! The future of America is SAFE
@Buster Lawless: If you shout just a little bit louder, he might even hear across the Atlantic! Can you imagine…
@honey badger: are you aware of where that sofa story originated?
@Mick O’K: in fairness, truth, honestly & transparency were never that big a deal for the ” Kamila is the Messiah” woke lefty brigade
@Buster Lawless: Eh, did you not see the whole crew lying their azzes off about the security leak on Signal? Blaming the journalist etc. Mate, if you think Trump, Vance, Musk et al care about the truth, you really have lost the plot.
I wish we had a leader like Trump here. All we have is Mehole Martin and Simple Simon.
@Ichabod Crane: You can make There into Here by emigrating to America. I’ll turn up at the airport to wave you goodbye.
@Ichabod Crane: A very juvenile comment like the carry on of your representatives in the Dáil. Their reaction to the speaking rights controversy is nothing only to cause disruption.
@Numinous20111: More than like he’d be deported back. The US is clamping down on freeloading immigrants
@Vincent Alexander: No, this lies at ffg and lowry Clans feet.
Trying to pull a fast one.verona, Murphy stated weeks back that you can’t be in government and be in opposition, what part of that so you not understand and then lowry smug git giving 2 fingers and getting caught, and still there. Must gave something good on the michael fella, and Simon struck dumb on one of his own and abuse of female member.
@Colette Byrne: You cannot blame the government for the actions of the opposition in the Dáil. If they wish to behave like children then treat them as such.
@Vincent Alexander: no. This as the governments doing. If you don’t understand that then you shouldn’t comment as it’s clearly beyond your comprehension.
@Fergus O’Donnell: Evidently you don’t understand disruptive and childish behaviour. The irony of SF shouting and screaming about democracy.
Another Woke Journalist with an Agenda.
@martin lawlor: I like when people use the word worn for anyone they disagree with.
It lets us all know what a total clown they are.
@Fergus O’Donnell: Did you mean the word Woke Fergus?? Or are you struggling to spell? We are all here to help champ.
@Fergus O’Donnell: I suggest you look into the background of The Journalists who write these articles before making your assessment.That’s if you don’t struggle with reading aswell as spelling.
@martin lawlor: better woke than sleepwalking
@Dgn: I don’t know,when you look at the road we are heading, I’d question whose sleepwalking.
@martin lawlor: called a typo. Doesn’t change the fact that you’re clueless.
@martin lawlor: *who’s
@Fergus O’Donnell: Yeah, that right Fergus and you’re an Expert???
From what I see, the left have ran the world and the media for many year’s now.How’s that going???
Tell me one positive outcome that has benefited society as a whole.
@ecrowley ecrowley: I see you have to type you’re name twice sunshine.
@martin lawlor: Sick burn lolz
@martin lawlor: You also have a problem in the spelling department.
“whose” should be “who’s” or “who is”
“you’re” should be “your ”
The possessive case of personal pronouns is obviously a problem for you.
@martin lawlor: what does “Woke” mean?
@Eugene Kernan: Ah not you again Eugene, another leftie half wit.
@martin lawlor: all you need are giant shoes and a red nose. You’re absolutely clueless.
@martin lawlor:
My first post ever!
And I’m very far from being a lefty!
The singular is “lefty”. The plural is “lefties”.
It was you who raised the issue of spelling!
@Fergus O’Donnell: Does that mean you can’t answer Fergus???
Is that the only answer you can give ??
To insult someone?
Really??
@martin lawlor: Look who it is! The old man with the teenage insults. His generation know best, folks. Listen to the wise old owl.
@Iano C: The only man to work wonder’s in the past 20 year’s is Elon Musk and you all hate him.
What has your generation built Iano???
Invented maybe?? Created even???
I’ll tell ya, F All.
Without the Internet you would probably fall apart.
@martin lawlor: You’re crying like a toddler that got lost in the supermarket, have some dignity man.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: I’ve seen some of you’re bull on here also, another headcase.
Time to delete this app I think,only wind myself up reading some of the crap on here.
Very hard to find unbiased media nowadays
@martin lawlor: this comments board is only a bit of craic nowadays, it’s just a cesspit for low level trolling. Nobody takes it seriously, or the juvenile insults personally
@Mary Linton: I don’t take a lot of it seriously Mary to be fair, it’s just some of the comments frighten me to think of the road we are heading, I pray to God a lot of it is trolling.
@martin lawlor: ‘Woke’ is good. It means caring about others. If Americans care about their own well being they’ll kick that whole crowd out and soon.
@Anne Dunne: Well Anne,I’ll offer a counter argument, if Woke is so good, why doesn’t it offer up the same care,respect and protection to people who oppose some of the ideologies?
Men competing in Women’s Sport’s to name 1, DEI, rewarding people of a certain gender, race or ethnicity ahead of people who worked dammed hard to get where they are on Merit to name another.
I could go on all day Anne.Woke is not good as a whole and will destroy the very Fabrics of society for many a year to come unless it’s addressed as a matter of immediate concern.
@martin lawlor: you didn’t even know what the acronym DEI even stood for before Musk and Trump made it a US election issue late last year. In any case you have it bass-ackwards. It’s to stop mediocre white men getting positions they are unqualified for. Just take a look at the clown college Trump has assembled chock a block full of mediocre and completely unqualified white men.
@Franno: Mediocre white men???
Now we see the real “Franno” a bitter little man/girl god only knows.
As for DEI, your dead right kid, it was never something that I experienced.
If you were good, you were good , no matter race, gender etc.
I’m guessing Franno is a name you’ve characterised as Irish??? Am I close??
You think it’s a common name and you can portray yourself as an Irish Lad from the street ??? Am I close?
Yeah, me thinks you are not from Ireland and are a twisted little lad with an agenda Franno .Ya see my name is real and you can look it up kid.
He has done more work in 10 weeks than our government has done in the last 10 years
We really need distance from America politically. They are a decayed shell of a country with no apparent ability to extract themselves from the dead end they’ve hurtled towards. They’ll drag us and every other Western Country down with them…if we let them.
@Numinous20111: …but come in handy to European policy and decision makers as well as the media to distract from issues closer to home.
@Numinous20111: Decayed shell of a country? Not likely. The US leads in the cutting edge of technology, science, bussiness and culture in every sphere. The whole Trump/left work madness is a temporary readjustment. Americans think big and get things done. The future is still America’s for the foreseeable. The EU is the decayed shell, a non player in the technologies of the future, facing continued population decline and pension time bomb, continued random terror attacks and no military or diplomatic clout.
The author still doesn’t get it. The reason behind the move to the right is because left leaning governments stopped listening to the people and were implementing policies that were actively affecting the very voters these left wing parties were supposed to be supporting. The authors suggestion that the Democrats should move further to the left will ensure they have no chance at winning elections or building up their support for the foreseeable future.
@The next small thing: They don’t get it because they surround themselves with people who share the views they do and then infer that that’s what most people think.
“Race equality” There’s your problem Emma. East Asians and Jews are at the top of the wealth pyramid in USA (Pew research) And every where else for that matter. Probably because they are smarter, work harder and support each other in the community. Democrats have tried various strategies to limit their numbers in Universities, but without success. Meanwhile they focus on “white previlige” and distorted historical injustices against “people of colour” All of which alienates poor working class whites. No wonder the left are getting a hammering. Even an ass like Trump can beat them.
@Fran Ken: this is incorrect. Hindus have the highest % of $100k earners. You have also conflated race and religin for your own purposes.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: Hindus are a religion. East Asians refer to people from a specific geographical location, so are a collection of ethnic groups. Jews in this case refers to people who identify as an ethnic group (who may also share a common religion)
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: By the way, I mentioned where I got my figures. You don’t mention where you got yours. If you are correct it doesn’t detract from the point I was making (although I am not aware that Democrats tried to introduce a points system fo control the numbers of Hindus entering university, as the did with East Asians and Jews)
@Fran Ken: pew research 2025.
@Fran Ken: wrong. Jews, Hindus, Christians etc are all in the same category of Pew Research report 26-Feb-2025.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: Ah saw it, Pew Report on Religion. Hindus 0.9% of the population…..hardly statistically significant, but I take your point. Still doesn’t affect the point I made.
It was so refreshing to see that Hamas Sympathizer getting thrown out of USA yesterday
@Jef Gert: She was a Palestinian sympathiser. It looked like the SS arrested her in their back clothes. The law and due process are broken in America. Sad to see this happen.
@Annette Cooke: It was fantastic to see them detain and deport.
@Jef Gert: do you have a name for that person so we can check your ‘facts’?
@Jef Gert: People have a right to protest when they see 50,000 people, including women and children, slaughtered. Not all Palestinians are Hamass. It’s hard to watch that scrap of land bombarded because of other people’s politics. Americans go on about the war in Ukraine and to stop the killing. Yet no one cares about the children of Gaza.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen:
“Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities near her Massachusetts home on Tuesday”
She had written that the slaughter of civilians in Palestine was genocide. She said nothing in favour of Hamas.
At the rate he’s going the term won’t end until he appoints his successor.
@Kev OSullivan: JD.
Amazing how the ‘patriots’ are welcoming Trump’s attempt to destroy the Republic, how very ‘Patriotic’.
@Brian D’Arcy: Proto-Doomsday cultists, they are. Misery loves company.
I’m puzzled by those on this side of the pond loosing their heads because Trump doesn’t care about us, show me where he should care for us at the expense of Americans, he’s not obliged to do anything for us, some of us are acting like a spoiled brat when our dad grounded us, it’s embarrassing
@Bertie: That is the reality. Well said.
@Bertie: Not as puzzling as people supporting a man who’s action can be detrimental to the good of their own country. They are acting deranged members of a cult.
be fantastic if we had 4 years of a hard recession and rid Ireland of greedy corrupt fffg snakes and cronies
@jn: dope you don’t get 4 years of a recession you get at least 10, and many suicides and broken families.. the rich get richer in a recession, cop on
@jn: more cheerleaders of rack and ruin for Ireland. Well I sincerely hope it hits you hardest and fastest.
USA is banjaxed because of white privileged women and men being hired to do jobs they are not capable of doing on the basis of conscious bias by the hirers. That’s DEI.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: Agreed. Amazing how diverse DEI is: DIE….even IED!
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: The greatest example of this was the Democrats thinking they could get Hillary Clinton elected as President
@RP McGuinness: do keep up.
Wokery is well over. Nonsense is nonsense no matter how it’s portrayed.
@Áine G: WOKE DIED JANUARY 20th. All those poor mixed up lefties that couldn’t wait to tick X as their gender on passport applications are paying dearly now
@Áine G: what does wokery mean?
@Franno: The art of shouting racist or fascist when losing a debate.
@Fran Ken: so you don’t like it when racism or fascism is called out?
@Franno: Bingo!!
@Fran Ken: that’s what I thought. Tough. You guys love free speech and I’m gonna exercise mine. Fascism and racism is never acceptable, you’ll find no quarter here.
@Franno: I meant you just proved my point. I’m pretty sure you don’t even understand fascism. Ever call out the CCP, or any of the growing numbers of fascist parties that are actually in power?
@Fran Ken: what makes you so sure I don’t understand fascism? Or racism? Happy to keep calling it out where I see it. You seem to be implying calling someone woke means “don’t call out my fascism or racism, I want you to swallow my views without any back chat”.
@Franno: “A fascist state is a government characterized by authoritarian rule, extreme nationalism, and the suppression of political opposition, often led by a dictatorial leader. It emphasizes the supremacy of the state over individual rights and typically involves strict social and economic control”
That defines a growing number of east, central Asian and one European country. They seem to be winning. Meanwhile wokes are fighting imaginary fascists in the west, meaning anyone who disagrees with their world view. You’re in the same side of history as an iceberg, heading south and slowly melting into oblivion
@Fran Ken: the fascists in the West are only too real.
@Franno: Yea, keep chasing them Franno. I feel so much safer now!
Who is this woman? Her extremely left wing liberal views are exactly the reason why Trump got in.
Who in the Journal decides to give this loon a platform to spout her views ..
Enough already, I’m no fan of trump and haven’t we plenty of issues here at home to contend with and not be listening to this SJW ? Really !
@frank dowling: Calm down gammo.
@frank dowling: Frank you are completely correct. MAGA would have had zero chance of getting power except the governments at the time pushed an ultra left wing agenda and the vast majority of people don’t want that nonsense. They are to blame.
And JD is coming next.
@Áine G: Please god so
“Emma DeSouza is a writer and campaigner”
Funny how the Journal left out that she is a Director of a US NGO and has been rubbing shoulders with Hillary Clinton amongst others.
She wouldn’t be …biased by any chance?
@RP McGuinness: she’s a pain ,loves in the north but you southern lads are welcome to her
The main reason the Democrats don’t act like a coherent opposition is really quite simple, it because they don’t have any real policies much less answers or solutions to offer the American people, regardless of if they voted democrat or not. They just have a lot of hollow soundbites and slogans
The Democrats singular policy has been, agree with our stated views on everything without question, otherwise you are a facist. Which over the term of Bidens presidency even began to wear thin for many life long Democratic voters.
This is what all the people losing their minds about Trump during and since the election don’t get, Trumps election was less of an endorsement for him and more of a reflection of how disillusioned and sick of the Democrats even liberal Americans have become…
The USA is forked.
Big recession coming. April 2nd.
@Áine G: you will be happy about that I have no doubt
@sean weir: she’s another cheerleader for pain to be heaped on the ordinary person. Despicable. I hope whatever is coming happens to her first and hardest.
@Franno: You and your ilk caused all this pain with your crazy left wing agenda pushed on people. Its over now thank god but there will be consequences for it.
@Rian O’Sullivan: eh, no. It’s the fascist in the WH you have a hard-on for who is making a choice to bring down the world economy to ‘own the libs’. Not to mention that the orange goon and his smooth brained cohorts haven’t a clue about financial prudence: Trump 1.0 raised US national debt by an absolutely whopping 25% during his first disastrous term, up $7.1 Trillion to $36 Trillion.
Go away with your woke leftie views your finished pet. MAGA rules the world.
@Rian O’Sullivan: what does woke mean?
@Franno: what does woman mean?
@George Bowling: I asked first.
@Franno: it’s not a trick question, do you not know what ‘woman’ means?
@George Bowling: my original question isn’t a trick question either, stop deflecting. What does “Woke” mean?
@Franno: it wasn’t directed at me so what exactly is it that you think I’m deflecting? I asked you a question so simple a remedial three year old could answer it accurately, but you’re incapable of doing so. Do you really not know what ‘woman’ means? Because if you don’t you should probably try and master that mentally challenged 3 year old level of English vocabulary before setting your sights on more conceptual notions and their descriptors.
@George Bowling: but you interjected in the middle of my question. I’m not here to answer your question. My question still stands
@Franno: Woke means that you are aware of the institutional inequalities that have led to Trump, Johnston, Meloni, Orban et al.
Woke means that you can see another way, that isn’t autocratic rule by the narcissists.
Woke doesn’t see cash as the only way of negotiation.
@Franno: no, I just asked you a question to see if you would even be able to understand any responses your question might receive. You subsequently displayed a vocabulary that would be considered lacking in a mentally handicapped toddler.
@Franno: that’s just a lie, you obviously have some agenda otherwise you’d have chosen any other word in the dictionary. Since you’re so eager to insert yourself in the discussion, either give a definition of woke yourself or let others braver than you to air their definition and a chance to respond.
@Franno: no, it’s not a lie. You are incapable of defining a word that a mentally handicapped toddler could define with ease. You, therefore, possess a vocabulary that would be cause for concern if it was displayed by a mentally handicapped toddler. It is reasonable to assume that you are less intelligent than a mentally handicapped toddler considering your frankly hilarious vocabulary.
@George Bowling: enough with the laughable insults and deflections. You’re running scared to put down in words what actual values and beliefs of yours lie underneath a wafer thin skin of a small word “Woke”.
@Franno: I haven’t displayed any beliefs nor have I used the word “woke.” You’re deflecting from your inability to define a simple, commonly used word because you understand that any attempts by you to define it would illustrate beyond all doubt your remedial toddler levels of intelligence. But just for fun, what does ‘woman’ mean?
@George Bowling: talking about remedial, I already said I’m not here to answer your question and you seem to have severe difficulties understanding that. You’re still just deflecting from my original question. If you’ve nothing to actually contribute, you should jog on.
Fantastic stuff by the Don, will be going after the mexican cartels soon.
This is just another biased journalist that failed to capture accurately just how much of a disastrous position that the Democrats find themselves in. They now have an approval rating of 32%. In comparison, Trump’s approval rating is hovering around 48-50%, meaning that it’s quite likely that the Republicans will expand their seats in both the House and the Senate. The problem with Kamala Harris was precisely that she was too left-wing. She wanted to bring back price controls on groceries, give everyone $25,000 to get a mortgage, take away people’s guns while supporting reducing police budgets and wanted to ban private health insurance. Doubling down on Marxist radicals like Bernie Sanders (Senator for Vermont, not Maine) and Alexandria Cortez will only see them lose by a larger margin.
What an absolute load of nonsense. “I’ve been in the us a lot of people are disengaging”. I live here everyone I’ve met is happy with the direction the country is going and his approval rating indicates the same. The overwhelming feeling of relief can be felt everywhere imagine if Kamala was president good lord
@John O B: how to say you live in a white area of Mississippi without saying you live in a white area of Mississippi
Malcontents gonna malcontent.
Trump knows not everything he attempts to implement will not be a success, thus the high ratio of attempted implementations. Democrats in the gutter/Conservatives in the gutter too….but Democrats are looking….at THE STARS.
@Keth 417: they are looking at the stars because they are space cadets . The Democrats embraced anti – white wokery , like critical race theory . Traducing 70% of the population is not a bright election strategy .
@The Rossie: what does wokery mean?
@Franno: finding snowmen offensive because they are white , male , gender specific and a Christian symbol . That sort of thing .
@The Rossie: ok so woke is about snowmen, that’s a new one on me. How that is something to get so worked up about to overthrow economies seems a bit daft to me, but you do you. I’m glad I keep asking you lot what woke means because even though I never get a clear answer it never ceases to amaze.
At the rate and declared intent of Trump, 4 years is only an introduction of an intent to being a tyrant, like his friend and boss, Putin. Unfortunately the Democrats and friends have been a disaster and will now pay a heavy price for failing to deal with the criminal.
I don’t support Trump . He’s the worst , greed is good , Gordon Gekko type . I believe in climate change and environmental protection , far – right though I may be . He says it’s a Chinese conspiracy – juvenile nonsense . As for clarifying woke – it’s mostly a bogus guilt instilled in white people . You cannot state a perfect definition , there’s no clarity in insanity .
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@The Rossie: Woke is a verbal hand grenade that is lobbed about. Humans always take things too far. Either by exceeding the original justified basis for something, or for trying to discredit even the original justified basis for something. I’m confident that human societies are so deeply flawed that we will always have to acknowledge societal wrongs and botch the acknowledging of them. We really are a deeply dumb species.
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