I’m actually rather concerned about this situation. This can only lead to more aggressive behavior from trump. This is not good.

Quoth the liberal “Not this election cycle”

I’m happy Mamdani won. I like him as a candidate, and he seems like a good dude, from what I’ve seen. I just think that the results from the last 24h will push trump to greater depths of cruelty. It raises the stakes.

With any luck, trump will lash out, the US populace won’t have any of it, and he’ll lose all power, but I don’t see that happening. Instead, I see him tightening the clampdown and the citizenry just rolling over.

“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it” - Mark Twain

I mean the problem with this position is that the GOP doesn’t really need any excuse to escalate things. We’ve seen for decades now that if they can’t find real reasons to do some hateful thing they will fabricate reasons, lie outright, or simply do the thing anyway. There’s also the large historical parallel to nazi germany and Hitler. Europe tried to appease them by capitulating over and over and it got them nothing. The parallels are obvious to our current position and we can either resist as much as possible now and maybe stop things from getting that bad or we can roll over giving them what they want and things will just keep getting worse. They won’t stop because you roll over. They won’t ever have hurt people enough to satisfy them.