Any give a qrd on what Trump getting elected in 2016 felt like? (I wasn't that interested in politics back then) I heard the main difference between then and now is that it legit felt out of the blue. Like, no one expected Michigan and Pennsylvania to flip.
It was a very odd time to be a former Democrat. Going into the 2016 primary cycle, I already had decided I would not be voting for Hillary, as she represented everything I spent my life fighting against as a Democrat. I was slightly considering Sanders, but seeing him basically shit his pants and do nothing in the face of BLM activists basically convinced me he had no real staying power and when he cucked out for Hillary, the choice was between the crazy orange diamond and the woman who I would rather chew my own arm off than support.
No, I never forgot the shit she did with Jack Thompson or her attempt to pass FEPA. The second she did that she became my enemy permanently, and I am absolutely a bitter enough fuck to sit out an election in response. But then the Donald traipsed on up, said she belonged in prison, and the only real argument Hillary was putting forward was "vote for me or my opponent will explode planet earth."
At which point my brain essentially went: "....Bet. Bring on the explosion." And so, I decided to vote for him that year. I didn't tell anyone I was doing it, I kept it to myself and watched from the sidelines, and I admit watching him win and subsequently watching everyone I hated have a fucking meltdown over it as they tried to blame absolutely everyone but themselves was deeply satisfying. There was a lot of disturbing shit to come out of it soonafter though - I had a lot of people - mostly old friends of my mom's who were uber-progressives, who turned on me for failing to acknowledge Trump as Hitler/a Russian Puppet/The Devil.
What was the most fascinating part to me however was how fucking hard the orange boi's presence made the powers that be publicly fucking defrock and make absolutely clear just how fucking pissed they were - not just at Trump, for being every bit the brick we collectively threw through DC's windshield we knew him to be, but at us - the voters - for fucking
daring to upset the fucking paradigm and for knocking over the carefully-stacked deck of cards. The Donald winning, alongside Brexit and Modi, was the exact fucking second the powers that be decided that the first amendment was something that had to be fucking expunged online, lest results that they didn't fucking like become the norm.
