r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/National_Meeting_749 1d ago

It's hard to make street things happen. Also, a lot of people are worried about being killed.

Also, half the country is cool with it.

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u/nzernozer 22h ago

No one is refusing to protest because they're worried about being killed. That isn't a thing yet at all. People are just demoralized. Trump explicitly campaigned on all the things he's now doing and won anyway, so there hasn't been much will to protest.

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u/cheapdad 21h ago

No one is refusing to protest because they're worried about being killed. That isn't a thing yet at all.

Killed? Perhaps not yet. Sent away to a prison camp or deported without due process? That's very much a thing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scholars-targeted-deportation-trump-administration-rcna197331

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/14/columbia-doctoral-candidate-self-deported-another-protester-arrested-by-ice-dhs-announces/

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u/nzernozer 18h ago

Yes, but that isn't why people aren't protesting en masse, is what I'm saying.