At some point, there needs to be a “come to Jesus” moment within the Unity Party/Progressives in which they’ll have to forgo the High Language etiquette and engage with reality. I do not think it will be this year, I think it will only happen when academia and religious institutions start shuttering. Then schools. Then eco-programs. I don’t think social causes will stick with the Unity Party. I know it sounds crazy but I think organizations like GLAAD will look around, see about 25-30% of their base voted for Trump, and sit things out on the next election to see if they can negotiate for a better deal. Or at least they’ll try.
The problem is that all this is going to happen at once because all the funding and the tariffs are happening at once. The administration will be patient because it can be patient – there’s no judicial recourse that the administration is taking seriously. The longer they wait, the weaker the resistance gets. The progressive churches are broke, the NGOs are defunded, the party is scattered. There’s no rush – all Trump had to do was cut USAID and suddenly all the Democrat-supported groups are flat on their back.
The Broken masses will be forced to decide on a discredited Unity Party with a semi-populist platform vs the ever-chaotic Trump platform that is….impactful? We made this choice once before with Biden; I can’t tell if we can make that choice again.
Unity Party will try to get international support but, with the aid cut off, they’ll be reliant on foreign money to come into the Party along with promises of trade concessions.
Elon has shown how to hack elections, and that will be template to start an monetary arms race next election for bulk of the Donor Class (whatever that means.) Each sides wants more and better Billionaires.
Germany will split over the AfD. I don’t see how the AfD gets dislodged and I don’t see how they’ll win next election.
Israel will over-extend and find themselves fatigued and broke. They’ll need Syrian oil and offers of land grants. This is a country that knows how to incentivize their population on pure conquest.
Currency markets will split between Chinese aligned and American aligned. This is going to be weird with southeast asia were all the high-end manufacturing is occurring.
I’m not going to predict pharmacology delays but I think if economic war = war then I would assume we will eventually have some serious issues. Riddle me this: what does this country look like if it doesn’t have meds (from ozempic to diabetes to anti-depressants) for JUST one month? What does this country look like if you took away all the video games from all the men for JUST one month? It terrifies me to think, and it is quite possibly our future.
I got clean for me, but in many ways, I think God wanted me sober because What Comes Next is going to be very sobering for a lot of people.