There's a reason why I'm not thrilled to be entering into a new year this 2025. Actually there's several.
Just the painful reality that a court-convicted sex offender and criminal felon will be entering the White House to represent the entire United States. donald trump may have been President before, but it was through a fluke of a broken Electoral College system. This time, too many fellow Americans happily voted for this monster knowing full well all the crimes he'd been convicted (and the ones charged on him that will now ever see a courtroom). Just this fact alone hurts my soul, and I know I'm not the only one.
There's the horrifying damage trump and his Far Right lackeys can and will inflict on our nation, on our system of laws and protections. I know there are experts telling us that our institutions are firmly entrenched, that there are limits to many of the changes trump and his MAGA extremists want to enforce (to break our government altogether). The thing is: these bastards are going to try to wreck everything no matter what, far worse than what they tried the first time around because this time trump has more Executive powers granted to him by his allies at the Supreme Court. This time around there are NO adults in the room to rein in trump's more sadistic desires, only fellow sadists pandering to trump's obsessions and destructive urges.
trump is still out here spewing anti-immigrant outrage and lies, providing every proof that he intends to enact a massive deportation scheme that will tear apart families, capture and punish innocent lives - especially children who did nothing wrong - even the ones who ARE natural-born Americans, and betray every aspect of America's better ideals and aspirations. We're about to become a national prison, hunting and caging 20 million people because the Far Right views them as animals, without care to the immorality of such acts.
trump will take the American economy - still the strongest on the planet even with all the concerns about inflation (which has been dropping all year, thank you for not asking) - and break it through overt acts of corruption and stupidity. Forcing the federal reserve to buy into Bitcoin using billions of taxpayer money without any proof of its value; Twisting the stock market to favor trump's own holdings and generating enough uncertainty to cause meltdowns and panics; Harassing businesses with threats to perform shakedowns; Worst of all, pushing for tariffs that won't raise revenues but will trigger trade wars with even our biggest international allies.
trump will preside over a federal government - from the Executive to the Legislative to the Judiciary - under full control of a hard Conservative Republican Party obsessed with Culture War dogma that will affect our public education, our health care, our civil rights, our Social Security and Medicare safety nets.
trump is going to preside over yet another massive train wreck of an administration, and there's no sign that anyone is going to be in a position to stop him before he hurts millions and steals billions.
Welcome to 2025.
The fires are already starting.
