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coldsummer1816's avatar

I’m allowing myself to feel hopeful. The top piece on the Wall Street Journal this morning details actual plans for getting the ball rolling on mass deportations. It’s strange to think this second term administration will likely be more successful than if it had won in 2020. The abject disaster of the Biden administration and four more years of the media hysterically discrediting itself seems to have provided the counterfactual necessary for voters to give Trump 2.0 an undeniable mandate.

And from the perspective of touching grass and enjoying my real life: even if this is just a reprieve from the endless advance of militantly secular managerialism, the discourse has, for the moment, chilled out a bit IRL. Powerful liberals in the media do not seem to have learned their lesson, but the rank and file Democrats in my life seem to have understood this victory in a way they did not in 2016 or 2020. If these next four years go even moderately well while the media remains shrill and ignorant of reality, there may be great opportunity ahead.

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Andy Tross's avatar

"I am purposely ignoring the blackpillers who say this is all some 7-D chess by an impossibly omniscient ruling cabal, who had everything planned far in advance."

I think eugyppius has made a great point on this: as evil as the cabal is, they are not omniscient and they still have to operate with a fig leaf of restraint because if they go full communist totalitarian there's no going back for them. There's a core of true believers that surely wouldn't care if and when that time comes, but it will be at the risk of losing a host of normie supporters that absolutely will care that the last peaceful norms have been broken.

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