@jb Better on the border than Biden. Even if the actual deportation numbers need to be a good deal higher, I've enjoyed both the reversal of policy and the freak out. The USAID cuts have been pleasantly unexpected. The seeming cultural turn against the tranny thing has been nice. Having him and Vance repeatedly tell the UK and the rest of Europe to stop being so censorious was needed, and again, surprising. I don't think anyone else would ever do that.
The move to redraw congressional districts in certain red states in an off year is actually pretty ballsy. Democrats have never been afraid to use power to their advantage, while the Republicans have always been eager to be the principled losers. This goes to him seeming to be retraining that party to stop being such pussies and play hardball. If that attitude takes root, it could pay unexpected dividends down the line.
The Orange Goof is far, far, far from perfect. He is after all a 70 year old game show host, 90's New York Democrat-Boomer. The Israeli ball washing makes me want to throw up in my mouth, as does the Epstein thing. There's a lot more I want from him, a lot more. But given the condition and structure of the economy, the government, the judiciary, given who pulls the strings and writes the checks behind the scenes, given where we are and what we are as a country ... we could have done much worse. I never expected him to "fix" things the way I'd like because I don't think it can be fixed, not to the degree I or those here would like.
Trump is a baby step in the right direction. I'd love to see the game winning touchdown right now, but as long as the ball is moving down the field, even a little bit, I'll take it and then keep pushing for more. Democrats/the left/the forces of entropy got so powerful in just that way; always pushing, setting things up so they always ratchet in their direction, taking their small wins then immediately agitating for more.
People are openly saying "nigger" now. The noticing has never been higher, and it will keep growing as the Boomers die off and Gen Z comes into its own. Talking heads are now openly talking about the end of liberalism as a philosophy, discussing the flaws of the Enlightenment, debating what comes after. Feminism has become a dirty word. The common person now recognizes that going to university is not just a waste of time and money, but that the institutions are pretty much insane asylums and brain washing operations. There are a number of things moving in the right direction. Not quickly, not massively. It's baby steps, but it is moving. And for the first time in my nearly half a century, it feels like the ratchet effect is working in our favor.
I won't live to see it come to a head, but coming to a head it is. I suspect my young nephews will live to see it, and I think they'll handle it pretty well. That's enough to keep me going.