US Politics on Yik Yak | I’m a current dual degree student in political science and another unrelated major, and I’m currently writing a paper about the first trump administration. Now I was in 8th grade during that election and looking into it now, how were people “blindsided”?

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I’m a current dual degree student in political science and another unrelated major, and I’m currently writing a paper about the first trump administration. Now I was in 8th grade during that election and looking into it now, how were people “blindsided”?

Anonymous 12w

It’s called democratic backsliding. It’s when a leader centralizes power more and more thru various means gradually. It’s happening all ofer the world, with Erdogan in Turkey Putin in Russia Netanyahu in Israel Orban in Hungary etc

Anonymous 12w

It’s for an administrative law class so I’m specifically focusing on ICE and deportation policy’s he put in place and he’s just picking up where he left off except the courts aren’t fighting him as much as they used to and it’s a lot worse now that he had the foundations set up in 2017

Anonymous 12w

I was 17 at the time. At the start of the GOP primary, people thought Trump was an absolute joke. we were shocked when he won the nom, and later the presidency. And I think the “blindsiding” was just how quickly the GOP totally reinvented themselves to ride the Trump train

Anonymous 12w

Ofc you’re fishing for a high grade from these politically driven professors, God forbid people have their own opinion instead if just following what their echo chamber is saying 🙄

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Anonymous

#1 12w

They do this thru things like getting rid of the judiciary’s power (Netanyahu, and now Trump) arresting and suppressing the media and opposition (Putin) engaging in wars to keep themselves in power (Netanyahu)

Anonymous

#1 12w

It’s just crazy to me and I’m really struggling writing this paper because reading all of these executive orders and policy’s is making me sick. Like how did people who voted for him then see these and vote him back in? How did new “educated” voters see these and vote for him. The lack of humanity is sickening and just plain heart breaking

Anonymous

OP 12w

because they are neo nazis, white supremacists etc. put simply they are ignorant, disgusting bigots. they’ve voted for racist conmen for decades even though it has only caused them to get poorer.

Anonymous

#3 12w

I chose the topic because it’s an important topic to me, I originally wanted to talk about what is currently going on in the courts during this term but my professor made a good point that there are not enough court decisions and not enough policies have settled for me to meet the requirements of discussing the effects these policies had

Anonymous

#5 12w

the GOP in 2025 is completely unrecognizable from the GOP of 2012.

Anonymous

#5 12w

and as for why people voted him back in. There wasn’t really much coverage of Trump’s actual policies during his first term. We still cared about norms somewhat at that point so the news was all about whatever scandal he had going on.

Anonymous

#5 12w

All I did was look up a list of his policies and maybe my major influences what my search results are, but I have an entire pdf file that breaks everything down and I just can’t believe it, I remember getting told by my classmates I was going to get deported despite being born here and I remember seeing the ice detention centers on insta but I don’t remember it being as bad as it is right now

Anonymous

OP 12w

Yeah term 1 was absolutely nothing compared to what’s going on right now. Yet now there’s somehow *less* pushback. It’s the sort of shit that keeps me up at night

Anonymous

#5 12w

I keep telling myself after this he’ll be done, but look at the lasting impact Reagan left. And with everything he’s doing to give himself power, I wouldn’t be surprised if he just stayed in office until he died