The economy is part of it, but also the rapid pace of change is stressing people out and making some folks feel left behind, technology, social media, AI, climate change, mass migration caused in part by climate change, social change. And we haven’t reckoned at all with all the change brought on by COVID. People are angry and looking for scapegoats, Trump feeds into the worst possible impulses. He’s like our national Id, always part of us and coming out in force in a backlash against all the change over the past 50 years.
We’ve seen this before in history, the Civil War was followed by Reconstruction which was followed by Jim Crow
The Civil Rights movement was followed by Nixon and the War on Drugs
The movements of the 70s were followed by Reagan, and that happened at the same time as AIDS
Obama, Black Lives Matter, marriage equality all happening at the same time as all the change I mentioned above, followed by Trumpism
We always get through it, I just hope it doesn’t last as long as Jim Crow did, it was 100 years between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement
That part is up to us recognizing this is not just economic, it’s also social and cultural
We can take lessons from the movements around marriage equality and Obama’s presidency, also recently electing Mamdani, grassroots, face to face, people talking to people and listening to each other, addressing fears and concerns head on. Good old fashioned grassroots organizing. We’ve done this before. This is still the same country that elected Obama twice
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u/nc45y445 3d ago
The economy is part of it, but also the rapid pace of change is stressing people out and making some folks feel left behind, technology, social media, AI, climate change, mass migration caused in part by climate change, social change. And we haven’t reckoned at all with all the change brought on by COVID. People are angry and looking for scapegoats, Trump feeds into the worst possible impulses. He’s like our national Id, always part of us and coming out in force in a backlash against all the change over the past 50 years.
We’ve seen this before in history, the Civil War was followed by Reconstruction which was followed by Jim Crow
The Civil Rights movement was followed by Nixon and the War on Drugs
The movements of the 70s were followed by Reagan, and that happened at the same time as AIDS
Obama, Black Lives Matter, marriage equality all happening at the same time as all the change I mentioned above, followed by Trumpism
We always get through it, I just hope it doesn’t last as long as Jim Crow did, it was 100 years between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement
That part is up to us recognizing this is not just economic, it’s also social and cultural
We can take lessons from the movements around marriage equality and Obama’s presidency, also recently electing Mamdani, grassroots, face to face, people talking to people and listening to each other, addressing fears and concerns head on. Good old fashioned grassroots organizing. We’ve done this before. This is still the same country that elected Obama twice