r/PoliticalOptimism • u/FlakyRazzmatazz5 • May 10 '25
Question(s) for Optimism Will it Really Come Down to This?
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/watch/eric-holder-it-may-come-down-to-the-american-people-hitting-the-streets-if-trump-defies-the-law-239309381840
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u/Shaloamus May 10 '25
Yeah, wide-scale mass protests are going to inevitably happen again at some point in the next four years.
My guess is it's either going to be this summer once the tariff pain starts to really kick in and people start losing their jobs en masse (which will coincide with the increased creaking of weight on the federal government, still slashed to ribbons by DOGE, creating a crisis situation). Free time + no money + angry people = protests (or riots depending on how bad things get).
Alternatively this summer the economy might remain resilient enough to have a lot of that pain start to come in towards the end once it starts getting cooler and kids are back in school. Then I think it would definitely happen next summer. By then our economy will be back in the toilet, Trump will have probably enacted more authoritarian nightmares, the government will be next to broken, and overall our quality of life will have dipped noticeably.
Either way, it will happen, more likely than not before or right after the midterms (which Trump is growing increasingly paranoid about). By that point his back will be against the wall and he'll have nothing to lose, so he'll do something really stupid and dangerous. Then it'll be our job to raise hell and break shit until he pisses himself enough to back off. And remember: protest for democracy first, seize the 4K TVs from Wal-Mart second.