Some days I’m not sure if I’m tired because I’m sixty-nine years old, or if it’s from the emotional strain of staying politically informed and engaged.
I believe it’s my civic responsibility to stay informed. I get that it’s not for everyone, but I hope there are enough of us engaged to thwart the worst of the current regime’s abuses. If Forty-seven wants to know what radicalizes an aged liberal like me, it’s the crap he and Stephen Miller are pulling. Project 2025 radicalizes me. The current DOJ behaviors are radicalizing me.
One thing that is not radicalizing me is some imaginary leftist movement or George Soros. George has never even offered Joe or me a check. Antifa is not an organization — it’s a movement. For those who don’t understand what Antifa is, or are afraid of it, here’s Wikipedia’s opening paragraph:
“Antifa (/ænˈtiːfə, ˈæntifə/) is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement. It is sometimes described as a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups in the United States. Antifa political activism includes nonviolent methods of direct action such as poster and flyer campaigns, mutual aid, speeches, protest marches, and community organizing. Some who identify as antifa also use tactics involving digital activism, doxing, harassment, physical violence, and property damage. Supporters of the movement aim to combat far-right extremists, including neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”
While I do not condone violence, doxing, or property damage, I can imagine there are fringe individuals who do those things — just as January 6ers who stormed the Capitol were not representative of all Republicans, conservatives, or right-wing people. Meanwhile, Forty-seven posts on Truth Social and says in speeches that Democrats are the enemy. He even signed a (legally worthless) executive order designating a fictional organization as a domestic terrorist group:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/
Why would Forty-seven sign an executive order about a fictional group? My thought — shared by tens of millions of Americans — is that it’s a way to create a common enemy to entice MAGA back into the fold. His MAGA followers have been falling away as they realize there’s something in the Epstein files that he’s keeping from them after promising during his 2024 campaign that he would release them.
He’s also losing mainstream Republicans who voted for him in 2024. Food prices haven’t come down, fuel prices have stayed the same in most parts of the country, and ICE agents have arrested citizens and immigrants with legal status and no criminal records, even tearing children from families. Sadly for Forty-seven, many mainstream Republicans — and even some of MAGA — are starting to see that his efforts are having a negative impact on their lives, and most won’t fall for the campaign against Antifa (a cartoon this week summed it up: “Anti-Antifa = Fascist”).
To amp up his war on democracy, yesterday James Comey was indicted. Most of what I’m hearing is that the case may never make it to trial and could be dismissed as baseless. Forty-seven’s Truth Social statements make it clear this prosecution is strictly political and revenge-motivated. I am not a Comey fan — I thought his actions toward Hillary Clinton were deplorable — but I don’t think anyone should be targeted simply because a president declares them an enemy. Of course, according to Forty-seven, I’m also an enemy of the country (no, he hasn’t called me out by name, just by my political affiliation).
Staying informed is exhausting, but writing about it helps me process the chaos. I remind myself that even in the middle of all this, there are still millions of people who care deeply about democracy and decency. That thought is what keeps me going.
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