After one year, is America adapting to the "new politics" of Donald Trump?

[kentuck]

Are they beginning to feel better on the road to fascism?

Are they more accepting of the words and actions of the autocratic, oligarch Trump?

Has the media "normalized" more of his despicable acts than at the first of the year?

Will America be able to return to the times of the past after the Trump "experience"?

Are the sharp divisions reparable?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. While I'm usually cynical and not optimistic,

I see enough pushback from a variety of individuals and groups to be hopeful that Trump is temporary -- provided that some other Republican doesn't pick up where he left off.

Demonstrations, protests, public outcries, election results make me believe Trump is far from being accepted.

[dalton99a]

2. There can be no bridging between truth and blatant vicious falsehoods

falsehoods which continue unabated on a daily basis

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Answers

Are they beginning to feel better on the road to fascism? No

Are they more accepting of the words and actions of the autocratic, oligarch Trump? No

Has the media "normalized" more of his despicable acts than at the first of the year? A few members of the media have.

Will America be able to return to the times of the past after the Trump "experience"? No

Are the sharp divisions reparable? No

[willyjay]

4. I still see media fights

The New York Times is beefing up its Opinion section, announcing two new writers just this week — and they'll be taking on Trump's America in different ways.

"Hiring Anti-Trump Conservative [Bret Stephens] Is Part Of New York Times' Effort To Expand Opinion," by HuffPost's Michael Calderone and Nick Baumann. NYT's Editorial Page Editor James Bennet said there "are many shades of conservatism and many shades of liberalism," and the Times owes it to readers to "capture a wide range."

And on Friday afternoon, NYT announced another WSJ writer (and former associate book editor), Bari Weiss, would join the opinion section.

[RKP5637]

5. It really is the media fights/wars and who leads/wins. Most of us do not have intimate

knowledge of events, so we rely on the media and from some get spins of propaganda. There are so many fronts today. And Twitter, Facebook and the like sometimes lead often to tribalism and exclusively group think.

[Orsino]

6. It's inevitable.

The establishment is always strongly influenced by the sitting president. Trump may have pissed on tens of millions, sowing the seeds of his next failure, but the Beltway is normalizing him, and the Federal government is being remade in his ignorant, corrupt image.

[IluvPitties]

7. Many Americans are overlooking the rise of facism

...simply because they are currently on the "winning" side and feel powerful...