Risky Behavior- The 2024 Election

Written by Haylee Morgan

I think for a lot of people the results of the 2024 Election came as two defibrillator paddles to the chest. No liberal leaning person expected Donald J Trump to win the Presidency a second time. We were all thinking ‘America learned it’s lesson the first time’, especially with his mishandling of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time we all thought that Donald Trump's supporters had dwindled in number and that the MAGA crowd, while loud, were fewer in numbers than 2016, and definitely fewer than 2020 levels. Apparently we were fucking mistaken- or at least I was. 

We made the mistake of false confidence in this Election, especially after Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Kamala Harris took the country by storm. We fully expected a highly qualified woman to take the Democratic party to the White House again, and while I think she ran an absolutely spectacular campaign with record breaking fundraising in such a short amount of time, we cannot discount the fact that Donald J Trump had been campaigning and spreading hateful rhetoric for upwards of a decade.

Now we find ourselves in a decisive moment in American history. We are seeing a fascist rise to the highest levels in the American Government. We are seeing the modern day Gestapo in the form of the Department of Government Efficiency, headed up by none other than Elon Musk, who’s sole purpose is to critically cut the government departments across the board and weed out dissenters and people who are not loyal to DJT specifically.

Women’s rights, marriage and equal rights are all on the chopping block following the Election of Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda. Next we are going to see a rise in censorship on the internet. We are going to see political dissenters rounded up. We are going to see immigrants and their families forced into internment camps. This is all outlined in Project 2025, and you’re welcome to go read it now.  While DJT said he wasn’t affiliated with project 2025, he appointed the author of the 900 page text to the Secretary of Defense.

I’m not writing this to scare you, but rather to inform you. So what do we do? We have over a decade of hate to undo. We have countless misinformation campaigns to unravel, and quite honestly it’s going to take some time. I, personally, think that DJT is going to fuck up this second presidential term in such a spectacular manner that not even lifelong Republicans are going to trust the republican party for quite some time. Essentially the Republican party alongside DJT and his disastrously unqualified cabinet of loyalists are going to hurt their voter base so deeply in the pocketbook that even staunch Republican citizens are going to have a difficult time justifying his actions once those actions begin to affect their day to day lives.  I think a lot of the work is going to be done for us in the next four years.

We must remain vocal through this entire process and force this administration and the citizens who voted this party into power accountable for whatever comes next. We must not allow them to pass off the blame to someone else or a previous administration when they hold control of all three branches of government. We must bring to light any issues both legal and ethical and present the facts so that when DJT’s policies begin to harm hard working Americans, they have factual evidence and know where to place blame. Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Overtime Pay, the DOE, Tariffs and Mass deportations are just the tip of the iceberg and when each one of these policies goes into effect- especially simultaneously as DJT wishes they would- then we are going to have a Titanic on our hands.

I hate to say it, but this is going to hurt but maybe, just maybe if we are lucky the hurt will be enough to wake the Republican voter base up to all of the social programs that they use and what life without those programs, or critically underfunded programs, looks like.