For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.

The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.

Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.

But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.

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It’s not time to trust us. We still have a shitload of Dems who are basically part of the gop. Corporate dems are essentially republicans with favorable attitudes towards identity politics. These people are effectively part of the meta party which is comprised of people who are Neo liberals and believe in trickle down economics and the vaunting of corporations and the wealthy. They will do everything they can to keep the status quo and assist Trump as controlled opposition. Class war is first. Without cleaning up these people and addressing wealth and corporate person hood the U.S. will not change its trajectory.

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