Summary
In his first four weeks back in office, Trump has aggressively pushed executive orders, spending freezes, and mass firings, drawing both outrage and support.
To low-information voters, this flurry of orders appears like decisive action, boosting his approval ratings despite legal challenges.
His cuts to DEI programs and USAID funding resonate with those frustrated by government spending. However, opposition to Elon Musk’s role in the administration is growing.
Democrats are urged to shift their messaging from abstract policy fights to personal impacts on local communities.
No surprise there.
A great many Americans are angry and stupid, so even the obvious harm Trump and Musk are doing is fine by them, because they actually enjoy seeing other people suffer.
They’ll only potentially care when the whole process shakes out far enough that they themselves are suffering, and even then there’s a good chance that they’ll be unable/unwilling to assign the blame where it so obviously belongs.
No civilization has ever collapsed without the active support of a deluded public all the way down.
This, and they absolutely have no clue how government runs. So they see some programs they don’t understand the purpose of being cut or people being fired from multiple agencies and they say “Good! Lookit the money we’re saving!” They have no view other than their willfully myopic and selfish short term perspective that prevents them from understand the consequences of this administration’s actions.