Well, if watching the various resistance movements do silent sabotage this year wasn't heartening, the following facts might make you feel better.

Dems are polling 14% over Republicans right now, and if that holds until November, it's likely that the November elections will be overwhelming and rig-proof. Further, nearly every Donald-backed candidate has lost their election against a Dem in 2025 and 2026, and most of those elections occurred in states and districts Donald won by double digits in 2024. The only good election news Donald has had has occurred in Republican primaries, but that doesn't matter due to his having a lower approval rating than Jimmy Carter.

The upside is Donald thought he had a mandate to revive Nazi Germany and learned that people literally just wanted illegal immigrants deported and not to see 5th graders chased down and cuffed by masked thugs, and yes, those are two different things. People voted for immigration reform and affordability, and Donald has not only failed on both, he's failed spectacularly on both issues while getting us into a war no one wanted that has made the cost of living worse.

The downside is we can look at the last 40 years of Democratic politics and conclude that nothing will fundamentally change and, more likely, the majority of Democrats will coopt the power Donald has seized and embrace the new fascism.

It is nice to see that centrists are finally coming around on socialism, though. All it took was them having to live in their cars.