Look, I get it. After the election I felt like humanity itself had completely fucked up. For a while I honestly stopped giving a shit at all about most people, even people currently struggling, because they chose their own suffering over improving their own lives. I just checked out.

But as time has gone on, and the more and more people will come to despise Trump for the cowardly tyrant that he is, the more I realise now is not the time to hold grudges. Yes, your uncle who works at the VA who voted for Trump and is now completely distraught about losing his job might have brought it on himself, but if we can see past that momentary lapse in judgement we could also turn him into a powerful ally to take the false emperor down.

Believe it or not, but Trump still relies on his political base for support. Even dictators need to appease their loyalists. If those loyalists instead wake up to the horror they’re suffering, then that dictator’s days are number and democracy will triumph once again.

I truly believe this fight isn’t just a fight about politics or personalities, but also a fight about values. We are fighting to prove love, honesty, forgiveness and acceptance and more powerful than hatred, revenge, evil and division.

You have every right to be angry at your fellow Americans. You have every right to feel betrayed. But I urge you; if you find a former Trump supporter who now sees the guy for what he is, if you find someone who made a colossal fuckip but now genuinely wants to fix their mistakes - help them. Show them the error of their ways, and guide them to pointing out who exactly is cause for their misery. Point them in the right direction. Point them to Bernie. Point them to anyone or anything that’ll show them what’s wrong, and more importantly, how to fix it.

This isn’t a left vs right issue anymore. It’s the people vs the oligarchs. Some of us may have been duped. We fucked up. But we can fix our mistakes. Together we can turn our anger towards the enemies of democracy, and together we can win.

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EDIT: To add to this, this only applies to people who genuinely regret or question their vote for Trump now, even if they haven’t fully made the leap. As some people have pointed out, there is still a LOT of genuine racists / chauvinists / white nationalists etc in his base, who’ll support him no matter what. These people are ghouls and completely irrelevant to our efforts. But honestly, these people are still a minority in American society, even to this day.

There’s enough Trump supporters out there who only voted for him because their favourite streamer told them to who are now facing the loss of their jobs who can absolutely be swayed to our cause. I’m not saying we should uniformly accept anyone who voted for Trump, that would be asinine; rather, we should use discretion and plant seeds where they can be planted. Pick your battles. See what the other person is saying. And, if the moment for it feels right, we can get them on board.

EDIT EDIT: Let’s not forget the world is still dealing with collective trauma from COVID. A lot of people are still basically in a haze from lockdowns and coronavirus. I’m still not justifying their actions, but with the amount of emotional turmoil all of us have been through it’s not surprising to think some people may have gotten caught up in the hype. In fact, I genuinely believe 2024 was just a collective trauma response to 2022/23, of which we haven’t fully recovered from.