At the beginning of Trump 1.0, I began a series entitled “In Troubled Times.” With the onset of the war in Ukraine (aka The War of Russian Aggression), I shifted to “In Times of War.” Today, Substackian Robert Reich offers reasons for cautious optimism. Let’s feed that hope!
This is a very brief summary. Click on the link to read the whole thing and to subscribe.
3. Independent and alternative media are growing.
4. Musk’s popularity is plunging.
5. Musk’s Doge is losing credibility.
6. The federal courts are hitting back.
7. Demonstrations are on the rise.
8. Stock and bond markets are trembling.
9. Trump is overreaching — pretending to be “king” and abandoning Ukraine for Putin.
10. The Trump-Vance-Musk “shock and awe” plan is faltering.
In all these ways and for all of these reasons, the regime’s efforts to overwhelm us are failing.
Make no mistake: Trump, Vance, and Musk continue to be an indiscriminate wrecking ball that has already caused major destruction and will continue to weaken and isolate America. But their takeover has been slowed.
Their plan was based on doing so much, so fast that the rest of us would give in to negativity and despair. They want a dictatorship built on hopelessness and fear.
That may have been the case initially, but we can take courage from the green shoots of rebellion now appearing across America and the world.
As several of you have pointed out, successful resistance movements maintain hope and a positive vision of the future, no matter how dark the present.
I read posts in the wrong order! If your resistance moments are very clever and only use performative stuff with much considered direction… there’s hope. This is, of course, the stuff one can’t see from Australia.
I scheduled this post awhile ago. The chaos roiling out of Mar-a-Lago is so bad that folks need messages of hope in different ways and many times. Every day brings a new calamity, but the resistance is gathering steam. Substacks like the one I cited provide a welcome antidote to legacy news.