Trump Part Deux - Deja Vu All Over Again

1/19/2025

Trump Part Deux

– Deja Vu All Over Again

I’ll admit that in the lead up to last November, I could never have imagined that I would be writing about my thoughts concerning a second Trump inauguration. It was inconceivable.

Sure, the national and battleground states polling was a see-saw and I assumed Trump’s numbers were inflated, but by all appearances, it looked like moderates, independents, minorities and Gen Z were going to get Vice President Harris over the finish line.

I’d like to think my estimates were not wishful thinking or Pollyanish, but certainly they could be deemed so, after the fact. I was even foolish enough to put my prediction down in writing and publish it. I could delete that post, but my personal ethics don’t permit me to bury mistakes or delete them from the data center’s server banks.

What did I miss?

Two things that loom large now. One – the broad electorate’s affliction with short term memory loss. Did they forget all the reasons they opted not to vote for Trump in 2020? Evidently.

The second miscalculation on my part, was vastly underestimating the number of people who would be voting, that were ignorant of the facts as versus the lies and false claims Trump was repeating every few minutes.

I thought, wrongly, that society had moved beyond the vulnerability of the would be tyrant’s gambit of repeating big lies frequently enough that eventually those hearing them, would come to actually believe them. We have sadly not moved past that.

Beyond those two factors, it seemed to me that Democrats, particularly women, who stood to lose more than anyone from Trump’s second term, were energized and would show up to the polls in dominant numbers. They did not.

Hispanics and Blacks – the male contingent among them, unwittingly, voted against their own best interests, partly due to the gravitational forces of social media influencers, (think Joe Rogan) and the misogynistic voices spurring an impulse within them to view Kamala Harris’ prospective presidency as a net loss for the sort of counterfeit masculine cultural utopianism they embraced amidst their fears of feminism.

As to Trump’s existing cult base, that was something already baked into the cake.

Since then, the Democrats, Janus like, have been engaged in two pursuits. One is positive and the other, counter-productive.

The counter-productive is the blame game that the mass media is acting as a catalyst of. It centers mostly around the circumstances of President Biden’s withdrawal from the race and how and why the Vice President was shoehorned in as the replacement. The grousing and finger pointing continues to this very moment.

On the other side of things, the Democrats are not paralyzed on how to respond going forward. There is a very active effort underway, assembling a lawfare infrastructure and a multi-faceted blueprint on taking timely action in the courts against Trump's neo-Monarchical designs and forthcoming attempts to put Democracy in a straitjacket.

Reality sets in, but so does the opposition operation and gameplan

I have been reading a number of reports and outlines on this and I can assure you there is going to be no rolling over and playing dead for all of this.

It's serious, yes - but there is serious opposition being mobilized to be at the ready - not only the Democratic party, but ancillary public advocacy groups of which I could list several, but prominent among them, the labor unions and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The resistance is going to go beyond editorials and denouncements from the opposition. We already saw the People’s March On Washington, where the numbers may have been less than previous iterations (the Women’s March). The diminished turnout has mostly to do with a lot of us remaining in a state of shock, denial and disbelief of the outcome of the election.

That won’t persist. The resistance will get its legs back underneath it and we’ll once again stand strong against the temporary gains of Fascism.

Where the rubber really meets the road, will take the form of lawfare in the courts, where every plaintiff, whether it be a state or locality or a civil rights or Constitutional advocacy org, will engage Trump’s administration in protracted legal battles in the courts to effect a log jam, or what I describe as spike strips and resulting flat tires.

All of this was game planned even before November 5th, in order to have things in place if the worst case scenario materialized.

Meanwhile, I have friends who, for the sake of regaining their sense of mental harmony and stasis, are avoiding media and most all engagement with the customary barrage of reporting on Trump heading back to 1600 Penn, with the boast that he has a “strong mandate” to push forth with his agenda.

As the first 100 days proceeds, I will be serving up more analysis, but for now, as to whether and to what extent Trump will bull forward with his ambitious designs on functioning more in the mode of a unilateral, dictatorial presidency model than has ever been seen until now, we’ll have to assess that as we go.

I’ll also be sharing insight into how best, you and I can participate in effectively opposing him and the party he has executed a hostile, complete takeover of. Meanwhile do share any thoughts you have about his approaching second term in the comments.