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The thing that bothers me is that in 2024, polling found a majority of Americans favored Trump on immigration and trusted him more than Harris to do a good job on the issue.
When I guessed what Trump was going to do about immigration, it looked a whole lot like what he's actually doing. It wasn't especially hard to guess because he said what he intended to do. While that's not a guarantee with a habitual liar, he did have a record of attempting to keep campaign promises.
What the hell were people who trusted him on immigration in 2024 and don't like what he's doing in 2026 expecting?
In 2002-03, I told anyone who would listen that the Iraq war was a stupid idea, and that went so well (/s) that GWB actually won the 2004 election (unlike 2000)
By the end of 2006, almost everyone said they opposed the war and had always opposed the war, that they were outraged by Abu Ghraib and soldiers being killed by IEDs and etc.
In my experience, Americans aren't bloodthirsty monsters, but they have crappy imaginations and memories, so they have to actually see an obviously terrible idea get played out and be completely terrible before they will recognize that it is terrible, and then they'll tell you they knew it was terrible all along. I don't think we're much different than people anywhere else in the world in those regards, though.
We see a lot of people without imagination, when it comes to the elections being stolen or the possibility of civil war. I personally think many people are rejecting reality, trying to comfort themselves with the idea that nothing can change. Nothing can get better, but it can't get worse either. Thus, nothing needs to be done by them.
Anyhow, it will be up to people who have more spirit to decide the direction of this country. Hopefully, you and I will live to see a better world, forged by our hands.