apricops:

God this moment in time and history (in the US) is so weird. It feels like nothing is happening. It feels like exactly what people were afraid of since the 2016 election: the response to Trump was to put America in a sort of stasis. A freeze. But all these big obvious conflicts and serious problems are going on, so we’re just sort of stuck here, aware of everything but increasingly unable to make sense of anything. Like there’s nothing left to do but cross our fingers and wait.

Except waiting sucks, because the next big obvious thing on the horizon is midterm elections. And the Biden presidency so far has been such a void. Such a vacuum.

And you know, the interesting thing about Covid is that for a few months we had a glimpse of what the federal government could look like. For the first time in my and many people’s lives, the federal government actually improved people’s material conditions in response to Covid. Then Covid kept happening and the spigot was turned off because of course it was. And now we’re approaching the midterms where it is very likely that the Republican Party will make gains because the Biden presidency has been such a stuttering heap of nothingness.

Seriously, what’s next? What possibly comes after this?

Mainstream Democrats still pushing for reenacting the ‘90s (Clinton lost trifecta after 2 years) but also focused on freezing out the ultras, leading them to act out in some way that makes them Republicans’ problem to deal with, let them lose their agenda to doing the purges and come back in when people grow weary?