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That’s what we all thought five years ago…
I'm also not holding me breath, but we also can't pretend that Trump 2.0 is not objectively much worse than Trump 1.0. He did some sketchy, asinine and hateful shit in his first term, but he's fully trying to be a dictator now and he's well on his way to getting there. He's unilaterally making decisions that are wrecking the economy, trashing human rights, and he's blatantly breaking the law and ignoring the courts to do it. And people are pissed, even republican voters. If ever there was a time for them to step up, now is that time.
The real problem here is that Trump was doing all of this in his first term too. He didn't face any consequences for it then, so it's hard to take the thought he'll see consequences for it now seriously.