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The prevailing sentiment from the Lemmy community is that Trump is completely unstoppable and we should all just give up and accept his tyranny.
People love running propaganda for MAGA like that.
Or perhaps sentiment is that the institutions empowered to stop him are unwilling to do so because they are captured by capital.. and that we all need to put people into power who won't betray the people and who are willing to do something with that power to help everyone else... and perhaps work to restructure things so that the system works in favor of the working class instead of incrementally submitting to the will of capital until we are all wage slaves begging for table scraps from gold leafed shit stains like Musk and Bezos.
Clearly, they don't. As arrow74 has explained.
In the context of what I said, who is "they" and what "don't" they?
The prevailing sentiment is that they're extremely dangerous, do a lot of evil, and need to be stopped. The prevailing answer to that is "Oh, you're overreacting, they're perfectly stoppable, so you don't need to worry about anything. Don't forget to never vote under any circumstances because voting is useless and doesn't work"