[pbhjpbhj]

>This was a campaign strategy/promise for the US President.

I don't remember seeing "if you elect me I'll destroy NATO, threaten allies, and make sure even USA's oldest allies hate us" as part of the campaign.

Perhaps you could link that promise from the time before the election?

As to your questions, I think people are hoping that rule of law returns and there is an outbreak of common sense. No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation. That the Senate, SC, and tech leaders have fallen in place behind that (the latter literally paying fealty to their god-king) is complete insanity.

[le-mark]

> I don't remember seeing "if you elect me I'll destroy NATO, threaten allies, and make sure even USA's oldest allies hate us" as part of the campaign.

You weren’t paying attention, or spent to much time in wrong echo chamber.

[drcongo]

> No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation.

I'm sorry but everyone who was paying attention expected exactly that.

[pjc50]

> No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation. That the Senate, SC, and tech leaders have fallen in place behind that (the latter literally paying fealty to their god-king) is complete insanity.

I think it's completely expected that the Senate Republicans would do what they were told, and the multi-decade project to stack the Supreme Court with extremists to overthrow Roe v. Wade was something that was very obvious while it was happening.

[Tangurena2]

> No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation. That the Senate, SC, and tech leaders have fallen in place behind that (the latter literally paying fealty to their god-king) is complete insanity.

I would like to remind you of Project 2025. While Trump claimed to know nothing about it prior to being elected, so far he's appointed every editor/contributor to the document/project to his administration and achieved more than half of the stated goals of the document.

[krapp]

>No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation.

QAnon happened during Trump's first term. The support for Trump by the alt-right and white supremacists were so well known they were written about in the mainstream media.

Trump's links with Russia have been well known for decades. He literally started his construction business doing deals with the Russian mob.

Hell, even Trump's sexual abuse issues were right there for everyone to see. "Grab'em by the pussy" would have ended anyone else's entire political career, it just made Trump more popular.

>That the Senate, SC, and tech leaders have fallen in place behind that (the latter literally paying fealty to their god-king) is complete insanity.

Why do you think Trump packed the court with candidates hand-selected by the Federalist Society?

Did people miss the creeping right-wing shift in the Republican Party after 9/11? The ascent of Evangelical Christianity and Christian nationalism? The normalization of authoritarianism and fascism within the Conservative movement has been happening since the days of the John Birch Society. The dark enlightenment shit in SV goes back to Curtis Yarvin in the early 2000s.

All of this was seen coming from miles away.

All of this was warned about.

Shouted about from the rooftops and on the streetcorners.

For years.

No one cared because it was women and gays and people of color, "leftists" and "liberals" doing the warning. They were dismissed as delusional. Americans only trust in the authority of white men, and half the country swept Trump into power specifically because they wanted a white supremacist Christian revolution purging "DEI" and "feminism" and "progressivism" and "secularism" from culture and government. Even Trump's own supporters warned us about their intent. They literally published it in a document, with bullet points and everything, and Americans trusted the white guy with his fingers crossed behind his back - despite being an infamous liar, con-man and holding views that align perfectly with Project 2025 - because the alternative would mean trusting that a "leftist" could be right about something, and having a black woman president. Can't have that. We had a half-black man in the White House who was at best center-right and Americans lost their goddamn minds about him being the Marxist Black Panther Antichrist.

Americans don't get to say they didn't see it coming. This was the most easily telegraphed arc of fascism ever in the history of civilization. The US has been playing it on easy mode and still lost.