The influential people in opposition like Democratic party members or liberal news networks are fighting back, but only legally. I recall there being a reddit propaganda campaign by democrats where they would post weekly “what have we done” reports, having their angry public speeches against the current administration posted, there’s also been lawsuits targeting the illegal acts and lots of media coverage all around calling Trump a big dummy. However, if you have been following the news, you might have noticed that the current administration doesn’t really concern itself with legalities all that much, making the legal, liberal ways of fighting back pretty much toothless even if it does feel good in the moment.

After all, why try to mobilize/rally people to resist outside the legal, lawful means? Anything outside litigation, speeches and peaceful protests is immoral, and resistance via outside (possibly illegal) means would likely jeopardize their cushy lifestyles.

Though, this is irrelevant, and it’s time to stop pretending that reactionary forces and people like Trump & Musk fell out of the sky and decided to start dismantling liberal democracies out of nowhere.

Thanks to working classes being deliberately weakened by both major political parties (both economically and in organizational sense), red scare, prevalence of neoliberalism, further division of the workers via things like party loyalty and culture wars, no education reforms and the liberal overlords being insanely out of touch (recall Kamala’s response to egg prices), reactionaries have been able to get more and more ground. This was a long time coming, and today’s ‘supposed saviors that are doing nothing’ were instrumental in allowing this reactionary sentiment to fester into what it is now, and despite what lots of people here believe, just getting rid of Trump & Musk is far from enough even if it would feel good.