Politics

[...]Trump’s narrow support among the public has vanished. Despite his aggressive attacks on the press, his administration continues to leak like a sieve and what is discovered in those leaks is reported, however unfavorable it may be to him. Heavy-handed attempts are met with social revolts, ranging from mass protests to grand juries to consumer boycotts. Ordinary American citizens are filming, berating, and obstructing masked ICE thugs, often not as a matter of organized opposition but due to earnest outrage at what they are seeing unfold in front of them. Off year and special elections have provided evidence that voters are enraged. His Republican Congress is rapidly regressing to its dysfunctional mean. While the Supreme Court has continued to run interference on his behalf through the shadow docket, he’s lost very frequently. Trump has almost always been delayed in the lower courts, eating up time that he simply cannot afford to waste. He has less than a year before the midterms, and then two years after that before the 2028 election. There’s a great deal to accomplish between now and then if dictatorship is the goal, and right now it does not appear that they have what it takes to run that gauntlet.

So now, at the very end of 2025, I want to take a moment and say to you: we are going to win.