America is a year into Trump’s presidency and checking the news every day honestly feels like torture. I knew that the quality of life in America would be bad when Donald Trump was declared the winner of the election back in 2024. What I did not expect was the start of a march towards textbook facism.
On January 8, Renee Nicole Good, a mother of two young children was shot to death by an immigration officer, and the first thing Trump’s administration did was take the officers side and further ICE agent’s federal protections.
What is even crazier is that the week after, it felt like society had completely moved on. What this administration has proven to be good at is flooding the news to cover up their actions. For example, the day after the first bits of the Epstein files were initially released, Trump ordered a strike on Nigeria which accomplished nothing but a distraction from the files.
What has Donald Trump done for the American people that has actually benefitted them on a personal level? His tariffs have raised prices on almost everything, and the US-backed escalation of the Israel-Palestine-Iran conflict has caused OPEC to assess the risks that the US imposes.
What is worse is that the Democrats in the Senate and the House have made little to no effort whatsoever to stop Trump. As a matter of fact, some of them even voted to fund his dangerous agenda.
What America needs is a real opposition party. Without one we are going to fall into full blown facism. Trump has “joked” about running for re-election in 2028, but to me, it feels like he is trying to softlaunch violating the Constitution through passively joking about it in order to see what the general population’s reaction would be to him running.
What scares me most is if the Republicans retain control of the House and Senate after the 2026 midterms, Trump will have nothing to lose, and he will not hold back anymore because the threat of being impeached will no longer be in the cards. I hope for America’s sake that that will not happen, but unfortunately the threat is always impending.
