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Annie McHugh (she/her)
@anniemchugh17.bsky.social
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I’m a writer. Of various things. Mostly boring. Sometimes interesting.
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i just want to say that i wrote this exactly one year ago.
This election was not a grand public affirmation for his most expansive plans and aggressive schemes. The electorate was as close to evenly divided as is possible (Trump is ahead by less than two percentage points in the popular vote) in a system where someone has to win. The marginal Trump voter — that is, the person who put him over the top — wants lower prices and cheaper homes, not chaos, dysfunction and autocratic, strongman government. But there are no real Trump plans to improve life for most Americans. If there is such a thing as favorable terrain for a fight, this is it. This is the opportunity to weaken Trump and make his administration even less effective than it is already shaping up to be. The 2024 election was the end of one iteration of the American republic. But the new one is still gestating — still formless, its outlines still unclear. And we, as free and equal citizens, have the capacity to shape it. Yes, Trump will fight to try to impose his vision of the new world. Yes, he will lay claim to the powers of a monarch. Yes, he will speak as if he has royal prerogative. Yes, he will work to undermine our revolutionary heritage. But there is a large gap between a stated intention and an accomplished fact. And it is within that space that politics happens.
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
anniemchugh17.bsky.social
I still haven’t watched the first Wicked movie because I’m still mad that they announced four years ago that they were stretching a 3-hour musical into 6 hours of two films. You can’t tell me that’s not a pointless cash grab & I won’t get over it no matter how good they wound up being.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM