I'm just waiting for the highskilled etsy/serious cosplay/historical costumer contingent to realize what this all means for them personally
right now the association of being anti-MAGA with being smart, educated, cultured is still very strong, strong enough that the corporate press thinks it will last forever.
it rests on people who aren't especially any of those things except highly educated. they have to throw in with the democratic party establishment to validate their life choices because if being anti-trump isn't what smart and cultured people do, how do they know they're smart and cultured? the size of their student loans?
the nanosecond someone high profile in one of those worlds breaks ranks and starts an American made line of vintage inspired shoes or something, anything garment/textile related? they won't even have to support Trump, all they will have to do is be apolitical.
There are specific youtubers I predict are going to get massively rich, people who have had offers to partner with Chinese manufacturers and have said no because of their values and ethics, who will absolutely start up garment manufacturing if they can do it in a way that protects labor and the environment.
and once that starts happening it's all over. Right now there is no ideological/cultural space for the 35yo woman with 70k in student loan debt teaching middle school oand trying to make sense of her life that doesnt' involve freaking out about MAGA. That space requires people being employed in that space, right now those people are all employed by Soros and the .gov. We're on the cusp of a huge change.
