MAGA influencers and GOP party members turned on Pam Bondi after the Attorney General's embarrassing congressional appearance. Bondi, who Trump appointed on February 5, 2025, has been criticized by MAGA voters and spokespeople after her display at the Senate hearing over Jeffrey Epstein's files. The...
I agree that the trajectory does seem to be full mask-off nazism.
I also agree that the regime seems to be moving way more quickly than the population generally realises.
I am in a different information bubble, given that I’m an Australian never having visited the US. It’s a train wreck I can’t look away from, sorry.
From the outside Americans do seem to be either very unaware or very apathetic. Every week there are new headlines saying something like “new poll reveals that 52% of Americans worry that the economy may be on the wrong path”, when it should be “100% of Americans are absolutely committed to jailing Trump and charging ICE officers”.
That said, I don’t begrudge any individual American for not taking action. If the same thing were happening here I would attend protests but I wouldn’t endanger myself or my kids. I guess it really depends how close to home things got. If ICE were abducting neighbours that I didn’t know, I might be out on the street with a whistle I guess.