Yeah, I can sympathize with that. Personally, I'd love to see Massachusetts and a few other states leave the union and do our own thing. We pay for everything in the states that focus all their political power on repression and exploitation and all we get for it is bullshit.

But I also have seen this cycle a few times now. Bush hurt our reputation, Obama did a lot to repair it, then Trump did worse and Biden made things a bit better. Now Trump is beating his own shit track record and when he's gone people will have maybe learned enough to elect someone who can make some real changes for the better. That doesn't mean the country will be in the position it was before him, but it should at least improve things. It seems like it's been swinging back and forth since long before I was born and unless the federal government collapses it'll probably keep going for a lot longer.

I'm glad I at least live in a decent state with health care, some degree of social safety net, and protections for queer folks. Personally, even now I feel safer as a trans woman in my own state than I would in the UK.

Things are fucked, but things are usually fucked and there's at least some amount of resistance being mounted. Minneapolis is showing how much the people there are willing to stand up for each other, which is at least heartening. Even looking at places like Texas, all the shit that's going on is flipping districts to the point that the gerrymandering they've done might not actually be enough to keep Republicans in power.

Trump at least, thankfully, does not have the support of the people, and even his own little cult probably won't outlast him personally. This administration is going to make it hard for the Republicans to elect anyone, and if we're smart enough about it on the left we might be able to replace some if the old guard in the Democratic party too.

We do at least seem to be less gullible as a whole than the populations that actually had popular support for fascism 80 years ago.