I didn’t vote for Trump, this is not a justification for anything he is doing, this is purely me trying to find any crumb of hope in this abysmal situation.
The country was in decline for at least a decade before Trump took office. So far everything has been a slow boil and we Americans just take it imo.
Maybe Trump will make everything so awful so quickly it will force actual change. Basically we were slowly heating the water and when it turned lukewarm Trump just cranked the heat up to max, maybe the frog realizes this and jumps out.
The problem is that there are 70+ million “frogs” in this country who are being told that being boiled alive is good for them - and they believe it without question, and will fight anyone that says otherwise.
On the bright side, that saying is not a reflection of reality. A real frog will jump out of the pot.