Summary
Following Trump’s 2024 election victory, the fervor of anti-Trump media and resistance movements has sharply declined.
Outlets like Drudge Report and MSNBC have seen significant viewership drops, while platforms like X (formerly Twitter) face progressive disengagement as figures like Nicolle Wallace and The Guardian pull back.
The “Resistance 2.0” appears muted compared to 2016, with fewer protests, diminished media energy, and a waning appetite for anti-Trump political books.
Critics worry this apathy could weaken opposition to Trump’s more radical second-term agenda, leaving backlash dependent on his upcoming actions.
Institutions will not save democracy. Democracy is accountable to only the people.
Nobody is willing to do what needs to be done.
Two tried. One missed, the other was apprehended.
They are worried that people aren’t buying their charade anymore. The duopoly is not working and that leaves a power vaccuum for an actual workers movement that can threaten them. People aren’t outraged at Trump because they are outraged at the system, at the economy, at the crimes we commit.
What can we fucking do? Literally nothing.
The best we’ve got is keeping our local governments functioning, because the federal government is about to come crashing down. Hopefully California will nope out of this dumpster fire of a country.
It’s because a lot of us really believed that this election was a no-brainer. Most of us did vote, but all of us didn’t vote. It is a very resounding defeat of all that was riding up into the election. And now that it’s over, the wind has completely been knocked out of our sails.
I can’t get too emotional anymore. I’m too tired to activist. It isn’t to say that I don’t care, I do, but if I care too much, then I’m upsetting my own life’s security and stability. I am only one person, it takes a motivated and collective group to resolve problems. We had the chance, no, we had multiple chances and all of them has been blown.
We’re now going to suffer the consequences and we’re now going to get a very, very harsh reminder of the saying “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it”. And the more we continue not learning, not developing, not regrouping, and not refining. We’re going to suffer for prolonged periods.
We tried to tell you at the war in the middle east protests.
We tried to tell you at Occupy Wall Street.
We tried to tell you during Bernies 2016 run.
We tried to tell you during Black Lives Matter.
We tried to tell you during Bernies 2020 campaign.
Its been decades and now we’re tuning out for our own sanity and the media and politicians are going to have to solve the problems they made and exacerbated themselves.
A movement that calls it quits after losing an election is not a serious movement. It’s more like a performance.
Maybe that’s why nobody was listening to you.
Didn’t read the list,huh dumbass?
I read it. A list of failures.
Even Bears fans are more resilient than leftists. But that’s fine, you can just pack it in and show yourselves out. I don’t think anyone will notice.
Maybe you should suck Putin’s cock a little deeper.
You saw a list of events that spans over a decade.
10 years is quite the performance, perhaps you’re just ignorant to the reality of things 🤷
Then we agree it’s not multiple decades.
And 10 years is nothing. The anti-abortion movement set Dobbs into motion in the 1990s, when they put Thomas on the SCOTUS. Their work only paid off 30 years later. Your “movement” doesn’t have the kind of patience necessary for success.
It really was mostly performance. If you ask someone today, “What did OWS want?” they will likely be unable to tell you.
Fair. Painful and mean, but also fair.
You skip the part where I said we’ve been at it for decades? Or the part where I said tuning out? No ones stopping being a revolutionary, were stopping engaging in a system that doesn’t listen to us. Read better.
Lmao.
Republicans own 90% of our media.
This article was fucking stupid.
This is where the “both sides are the same” narrative does hold true. The base is different, but at the top are the wealthy who care only about their power and wealth. Human concerns do not touch them except at the extremes, so they will never really care about the lower class.
Even the media that appears left leaning is run by them, if you think NBC executives voted for Kamala I have a bridge to sell you, huge, fantastic, the best bridge.
honestly good on us for learning and quitting the cycle of clicking the outrage headlines and instead working together to minimize damage as a community
the resistance, if it exists, is you, not some profit seeking ad-running corporate entity. i hope things keep being this way.
People didn’t learn how bad Trump could be because there were extraordinary measures to stop him. This time around, as long as it doesn’t end voting or kill people, I think we should just let every ridiculous thing pass to show people “why” Trump is bad.
🙄 Jesus give us a break, it’s not even January, and we literally just had to endure like 2 fucking years of ridiculous campaigning. It’s fine for people to tune out a little bit for now.
Honestly the realest response, I’m young, but this is by far the most exhausting election I’ve seen
This time I want Republicans to get everything they want. Either:
A) my worldviews and beliefs are completely wrong and the
NazisMAGAs really will create a utopian paradise, or B) everything will go to shit and I can finally stop hearing them pine for the fascist hellscape they don’t think they’re creatingEverything went to shit during Trump’s first term. People decided to conveniently forget all of that and re-elect him. It’s bizarre.
I predict everything goes to shit but all the
born again nazisMAGA idiots still somehow think it’s not their lord king tRumps fault cause transgender kids are still around maybe or because sleepy joe and obama just did so much damage the country couldn’t be saved despite tRumps dream team of pedophiles and worm riddled brain guy.C) everything goes to shit, and somehow of course, it’s the left’s fault again! Tada!
The resistance used to think there was a better option. After 4 years of genocide joe, that’s no longer assumed.
I think a lot of ordinary people on the left in America have learned from the first term that being glued to the news cycle does nothing but harm your mental health. Trump is going to do and say outrageous things, but ruminating on them only serves as a demotivator- unless you live in a place with a senator on the border about an issue or appointment, you really don’t have any power to prevent a Matt Gatez appointment or whatever. The outrage machine of corporate media no longer serves as “being informed”. People who are worried are taking action in their community, building up local and remote contacts, and supporting those affected by these soon to be enacted policies proactively. Turning the TV off is a good thing for that.
Check in with your friends and family. Understand local and state politics and make sure you turn up there. Make plans for when things go south.
This for sure. My mental health was so awful during Trump’s first term. I spent 4 years just… breathing. Barely able to focus on work or family because I felt there were just bigger issues to worry about. I’ve pulled way back from social media in general and I feel healthier for it.
I’m always going to help people at a local level. I’m always going to be a safe place or safe ear for the few folks it’s actually in my power to help. But I can’t take on the rest. This is what the American people on average want, and it is clear to me that until they get their blood, they won’t be satisfied.
I’ll see you fuckers in 4 years to try to elect someone who can fix… whatever is left.
Cable news making outraged noises was never about saving you, it was about attracting your attention to monetize it
Succinctly put.
corporate news: o noes! our revenue-per-click is dropping! Quickly, put some left-baiting headlines up! Go! go! go!
They only acknowledged us when they lose and when the dems no power to change anything. Never seen a dem win followed by tons of articles about the progressives.
That was 2016/17 pretty much. Ending more-or-less with the million woman march.
