I can't help but feel like a failure [View all]

Trump is getting a much warmer reception after the 2024 election than he did in the 2016 election. The kind of reception that he is getting today is the same kind of reception he was hoping he would get in 2016.

Trump's support has only gone up since 2016. He is more popular and more acceptable now than he has ever been before, and after all the bullshit of literally attacking our country's capitol.

He is normalized today in a way that he wasn't throughout his entire first term.

We did all the right things until we didn't. We were successful until we weren't.

We wrestled back the House, Senate and Presidency within his one term. We successfully made Trump a one-term president.

After the news cycle had moved on from 2022 midterms, I remember having this gut feeling that stars and the universe were starting to align for Trump. Everything just seemed to be going right for him. He was successfully dodging all of these criminal investigations, and successfully delaying them. Inflation was getting really bad, and of course, they were going to blame Joe Biden. Then, there were assassination attempts that made people more sympathetic to him.

I just keep wondering where the fuck did this country go wrong, and what went so fucking wrong for Trump to be as acceptable as he is today. A part of me wants to believe that people are stupid and people are not serious.