2024 was filled with dark predictions about what a second Donald Trump presidency might look like. We even had the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” document spelling out the far right’s ambitions in detail. But those who said that America was about to enter a truly debased era of cruelty and stupidity were roundly mocked by smug “experts”.
After all, we already lived through one Trump presidency. How bad could a second one really be? We heard multiple confident political analysts insist something along the lines of, “If you seriously think he’s going to do all the insane stuff he’s promising, you’re deluded, that’s just red meat to get his base riled up!”
