For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.
The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.
Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.
But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.
If gas were cheap right now the Republicans would still have won more seats. The average voter has a 1 month attention span and until that changes it’s a coinflip of if America will be evil or not. We just have to hope the cards fall right for gas prices to be cheap when the dems are in I guess 🤷
Maybe the world can tell that both US political parties are in the pockets of the same people.
Yeah, well, we haven’t seated the new congress yet. So, it’s gonna be a while before we see what they do.
It’s going to take serious systemic change for this to not happen again, and I’m not convinced they have it in them to throw the book at the people who did all of this.
Don’t.
Not yet.
Let us earn a spot at the table by showing we can prosecute criminals and hold the corrupt and powerful to account.
Good, they elected a known child-rapist and 37-time convicted felon, ffs.
Trump’s still there.
If the democrats don’t prosecute him and every single one of his cronies, there is no reason to trust America ever again.
Nixon was never prosecuted why would Trump be? The us doesn’t really do consequences for rich white men
See also: Bush.
The people who voted for Trump are still there. That’s all that actually matters.
They will vote for someone like him again. It’s only a matter of when.
They won’t, so there is no reason to trust America again. Trump’s a tool, he’s not the boss. He can’t even clean his ass.
Trust won’t return until systemic changes that made Trump possible are in place, and accountability for those who raped people and this nation happens. These midterms were a good necessary first step along the way. That’s it.
Nah, mate, this isn’t enough, not even when you vote out Trump. You guys gotta clean up your corruption, actually punish the violators, and restore the institutions and policies they have destroyed, along with restitution to the victims, including the foreign ones.
Otherwise, why would we trust you not to do it all again?
The problem is: the party has changed, but has politics actually changed, too?
We know the Democrats to be toothless enough to think about rolling out the carpet for Trump instead of actually dealing with him.
So we’ll just wait in how far they reign in their chief degenerate. If they stop his unnecessary wars, put limits to AI, scrap tariffs, and some other things out of Trumps pot of stupid ideas, we are open to talk again.
Just standing and watching when Trump sells Ukraine and us to his favorite dictator Putin will not make them friends here.
Look at all the assholes like Schumer and Jeffries, they can’t wait to reach across the aisle and suck Trump off.
That is one big part of the problem.
Lol, nope, not trusting you people again for a long, LONG time.
Right now you’ve done the absolute bare minimum blip.
The rest of the world will judge based on your patterns of behavior going forward.
Why exactly would we trust the US again? All we know for sure is that SOME fascist-loving racist pedophile admirers hate high prices.
Yeah … I’m not trusting American to do anything right any more. They keep repeating the pattern of ‘do stupid things’, ‘keep doing stupid things’, ‘hey guys I’ve stopped doing stupid things and I’m going to give you hope’, … then revert back to ‘do stupid things’ again … over and over.
It wouldn’t be so bad with any other country. The problem with the US is that they have such a big effect on the rest of the world due to the size of their military. It’s like having a really dumb neighbour and you can’t say or do anything about them because they have a really unhealthy number of machine guns and military grade weapons in, on and all over their house that everyone can see.
The change in relationship between the international community and USA is happening more than just from Trumpism. This is the American retreat. Structural forces inside USA and outside are such that this is inevitable in the coming decades.
What does this change?
Like 20 million people actually came out and voted, which is great, but the system is exactly the same.
So how can we trust the US when frankly, never in its history has the US punished their leaders or this tore off behaviour.
For a country that brags about checks and balances, I’ve watched your leaders sell pardons, pardon each other, and your Supreme Court decided the president is immune to consequences.
I lined the day one sober comment, but the US isn’t even sober.
That’s fair and we just taking the first step to get our shit back together so we can start building trust again.
