Why I Am Optimistic
Trump is Losing His Pillars of Support
“Laura Loomer: There’s A ‘Haitian Invasion’ And Migrants Are ‘Sacrificing Your Animals’”
Why I Am Optimistic
When you’ve lost Laura Loomer, you’ve lost the conspiracy industrial complex.
Referencing “Why Civil Resistance Works,” Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan’s book of the same name,
Every autocrat has to depend on pillars of support: business community, security forces, civil servants and state media.
Trump is Losing His Pillars of Support
Business Community
Farming and construction industries are being hurt from a lack of workers to, well, do the work. Cue more expensive food. Small businesses that relied upon international trade are losing revenue because they lost their source of components and can’t replace them with something Made in the USA.
Wall Street
These idiotic tariffs have caused punishing losses on Wall Street - something which Trump is very sensitive to. More than that, Trump is always changing the tariffs and changing the deadlines for them to take place. Maybe no one in this administration has noticed, but the world economy is very inter-dependent and trade-reliant. Cut off the outside supply, and there will be panic in the boardrooms.
Civil Servants
There are massive layoffs of civil servants that have simply been reversed. Many are still without jobs, but thousands have returned to work. More than that, recent events like the flooding deaths have demonstrated to everyone the important role of government. Whatever you might think about the people working for this Administration, they can’t fly bombers or collect taxes. That takes civil servants.
Military/National Guard
There is resistance within the military and security ranks. I know this because immigration activists in Los Angeles were tipped off before the National Guard and ICE arrived in that park, which was virtually empty by the time they got there. The ones who did that had to be part of the security forces that were ordered to storm the park.
Epstein-Haters
The howls of betrayal by (what is now) former Trump supporters was most striking. Even wacky Laura Loomer is condemning Trump for not releasing Epstein’s client list. Oh, and Alex Jones cried about it. He couldn’t bring himself to blame Trump at this point, but he will get there. My right-wing nutjob social media feed was full of Trump denunciations. He simply won’t get away with this reversal. Many of his supporters invested their identities in wanting retribution against the pervert elites. He will pay a big price for that one.
Joe Rogan Bros
When Joe “I don’t like to think too much” Rogan is condemning your policies for being stupid, you’ve got a problem. Actually, you’ve got several of them: it looks bad on the surface (where Joe likes to live) so you are losing the narrative, people feel sorry for immigrants who are just living their lives like them, people don’t want their neighbor sent to war-torn Sudan never to see their families again, and your policy is messing with how people see themselves.
Actually, that last one is a big one, and will be the focus of a future article.
Handy-Dandy Tips For Defeating Tyranny
Join the protests, but take a bath first. And comb your hair and wear clean, nice clothes. No one cares about your self-expression. You need people to be open to listening to your message first.
Maybe taking to the streets isn’t your thing. OK. Then find some other form of resistance. I told my paid subscribers my little action already, but find something that works for you: put up stickers that say “Don’t obey in advance” and “Defeat fascism”, delete Amazon and Twitter off of your phone (throw in Facebook and Instagram for good measure) OR READ A BOOK!!!!
You heard it here first, folks.
I was, a while ago, having a nice salad, listening to some serious blues when I picked up my I pad and the Tell caught my eye. I think you are doing well, caught some traction, felt life is still worth living and off we go. It’s going to be a long three + years. Some of the old have left and some new fresh, passionate and articulate are taken up vacuum.
The thing you won’t acknowledge is that Trump is not running for reelection, he could be the last one standing, but all the energy out there wasted is not going to change Trump purpose. After he is gone it will probably wain and that man or women if evil will pop up his garbage, however its nearing an end, maybe before you collect your first S S check or at least some rewards on your debit card. Anyway he’s the Iron Mike of his era.
So many of these Trumpsters, especially Loomer, make me want to pick up a baseball bat and see whether I'm strong enough to break a few bones. Which is why I'm glad that I'm in the woods where I can't get into that kind of trouble.
That said, I have spent more time than I care to think about at the county seat's WalMart. This is a store that I abhor for its policy toward workers, but I also don't want to have to drive 40 miles for a few basics. So I go to Walmart every couple of weeks.
And, of course, I'm going to eavesdrop. Last weekend I pushed my cart behind a couple. And the woman was livid. She was complaining to her significant other that she wasn't going to vote for anybody who had voted for that horrible bill. Further comments made it clear that she was referring to Trump's Big Beautiful (barf) Bill.
Chenango County, NY, is a part of the world that could be mistaken for the most hillbilly parts of the South minus the accent. Trump posters abound. One ramshackle house on a country road displays two massive political signs. One says Trump for President and the other says Fuck Biden. Not a lot of subtlety. This is serious right-wing Republican country. Last year, Trump won 63.4% of the votes in Chenango County.
It was clear that my friend in the front cart was one in Trump's crowd. And when you lose people like her, you're in trouble. I suspect that Trump's worst excesses will be cleaned up next year or early 2027 after the midterm elections. It's going to be fun to watch.