How the hell did we get here?
Explain is a weekly series that examines what the right is currently obsessed, how it influences politics – and why you should know.
It was 6 -month -old tumultuous with Donald Trump living in the presidency, with a federal government weakened now incapable of solving monumental problems such as climate change, pandemics, education, security and basic security, and even forecasting of the weather.
While the United States is reaching its 249th year of existence, it is in a very precarious position. So how did we get here?
Elon Musk propaganda machine
The 2024 elections clearly explained why Elon Musk has exploited billions of dollars to buy Twitter, which he has since renamed X. The richest man in the world has transformed the site into a propaganda machine, amplifying conspiracy theories and fanaticism.
When he launched his support for Trump, the site went by amplifying his campaign while degenerating lies and lies on the Democrats, in particular President Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris.
After Trump won the elections, the liberals and the progressives Mounted a massive exodus in Bluesky. The conservatives responded with anger – because they need to troll the liberals, which they prefer by talking to each other.
Attack against diversity
Trump is a racist and the biggest promoter of the conspiracy theory “Birther” on President Barack Obama. In his first mandate, he Nazis leased As “very beautiful people”. And now in his second term, there is just more of the same thing.
But instead of simply throw a rhetoric Where “awake” is a substitute for the word n, Trump uses his power to back up the very notion of diversity. He used executive action and internal government policy to serve diversity, equity and inclusion programs and even took the simple erasure of the realization of black, Latin and LGBTQ +people.
At the same time, it is accomplished – in part, at least – its campaign undertakes to the most virulent racists by Confirm your support For the pro-esclavagic confederation. Trump and his lieutenants like the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, religious the civil war and firmly descends on the side which considered blacks as a property.
Musk’s Government Sledgehammer
By empowering musk and its so-called ministry of government efficiency to infiltrate several government agencies, Trump has advanced the long-standing right to undermine the effective government. Musk and his team of destructive agents – like “Big balls“-tried to defeat Government agencies that millions of people count.
There has been significant resistance and a series of audience losses for Trump. But thanks to Doge, the government’s ability to do things like sending social security payments and monitoring hurricanes has been compromised.
Confidence in the government was already in trouble, but Trump and Musk have aggravated – all in the name of the “small” government, even if it means that people have to die.
Frightened men and predators
In Pentagon, the former Fox News host, Hegseth, continues to be the living Toxic masculinity that he represented on the right network. The only problem is that it manifests itself in mismanagement of the most powerful army in recorded history.
With Trump’s blessing, Hegseth hits the table on a so -called “warrior” ethics while chat about group cats About the missile strikes and making a waste of international diplomacy.
Simultaneously, the Trump administration continued to raise awareness of the right -wing toxic manosphere argue Influencer Andrew Tate, a misogynist who has been accused of rape in several countries. In other words, he is the perfect hero for the Trump administration.
Never stop pushing plots
Trump is a conspiracy theorist. For decades, he offered half -cooked theories and demystified on a litany of subjects – as when he said that climate change was a Chinese “hoax”. Even if he and the GOP are in charge, the Trump team always insists That “the deep state” is there to obtain them.
The plots are even worse this time because they are fueled by musk. Him and Trump Bandied on the concept This gold in Fort Knox had been stolen, even if the last secretary of Trump’s Treasury did a strange photo shoot just a few years ago.
There is no “white genocide”, but Trump spent days to stopThrowing a rhetorical bone to white supremacists who pushed the plot.
They like to abuse and bomb people
Conservatism has a longtime love story with abusive behavior. The line dates back to figures like President George W. Bush, who promoted torture as an American policy with the euphemism “improved as an interrogation” in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Now Trump has brought it back to the avant-garde by removing and holding immigrants, singing detention camps and having his subordinates as the interior security Kristi Noem Scene photo sessions in front of packaged prison cells.
THE Republican tradition of Bombing people happily has resurfaced with Trump’s decision to inject the nation into the conflict between Iran and Israel. Like Bush, Trump is now complain about the media Precisely covering his declarations of dubious success in his attacks.
Kill the economy
Trump inherited an economy of Biden who was on the walk after years of Mal Management of Trump during COVID-19. Instead of simply giving it the merit, as he did with Obama’s economic recovery in 2017, Trump attacks.
He unilaterally imposed prices which have already contributed to a budget slowdown and a sticker shock. Companies have If their hiring had an impact While countries around the world anticipate shock waves of an economic slowdown.
The latest Republican presidents – Renalal Reagan, George HW Bush, Bush and Trump – all chaired economic withdrawals that have been cleaned by Democrats.
Trump and his team, who spent years complaining about prices under Biden, Now said These cost increases are good for the economy, lest they offend Trump.
War against immigrants
Trump hates immigrants. He launched his initial candidacy for the presidency on the basis of lies in the socks on the fact that Mexican immigrants are rapists and have pursued a cruelty policy since. In his first mandate, he separated the families of immigrants. Now he’s removed Immigrants and even forcing military occupation on American cities.
The desire to demonize immigrants or Sympathetic immigration people– A tradition that has always been linked to American history –is obvious in all Trump’s actions.
But now that the public has seen that Trump and the GOP have overestimated the threat of “immigrant criminals”, he loses ground on what past polls were his strongest problems.
The United States is in a bad place, but that did not occur overnight. The law has traced and planned for the assault propelled by Trump, even if he claimed that he was not linked to initiatives like 2025 project.
If the country is recovered, it will take a long time. Trump has a whole system behind him, from the republican party to propaganda machines like X and Fox News.
They can be defeated, but the fight should be maintained.
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