some people have lost their memories

 I cannot get over how some people have completely lost their memory over political history in the USA.

First a few facts.

1. Trump won in 2016 but easily lost the popular vote.
2. the 2018 mid-terms were a massive blue wave.
3. Trump easily lost the 2020 election.
4. There was NO red wave in the 2022 mid-term elections and few 'trump' candidates won
5. Trump's victory in 2024 was the smallest victory against the incumbent in the Western world
6. Trump is under water in most categories since gaining office immigration and the economy being the most prominent

When Trump won I confidently predicted the mid-terms would go to the Democrats because of his policies which were bonkers in terms of economics namely mass tariffs and mass deportations. I stand by that prediction.

I cannot get over how so many people , both Democrat and Republican, talk as though Trump won in an reagan/ nixon/ johnson landslide. He didn't. Trump showed last time he was incompetent and chaotic and this time he has even more incompetent people as cabinet secretaries.

Trump has now recognised how unpopular he is by wanting even greater gerrymandering in republican held states. Autocracy is not popular. Dirigiste  economics rarely works as we know only too well here is Australia.

Now there is talk of Trump suffering confabulation. It will only get worse!

The trouble is Trump and his allies have so poisoned US polity and government it will take a monumental task to reform it. Take the DOJ. It will take time to get rid of the sycophants and bring in seasoned lawyers to do the job the DOJ used to do before trump.