Fortunately for us Trump is in his 70s, he won't bother us for long.
Today's "youth" however... if they find themselves corrupted by some equal measure - then we've found ourselves tomorrow's morality police. Cuba didn't have to be right wing to surrender to tyranny and murder. Imagine our future. First Journalism falls to advocacy. Then it advocates the end of its opponents, waiting for a savior to cast down the unworthy. For the next Castro, Mao, or Stalin. Trump captures many headlines today, but he is the least of our problems tomorrow.
Maintaining the integrity of Journalism would help quell a bloodthirsty response when our people put down Trumpism.
As far as I am concerned, what you are hoping for here is a win in the war against the world out there. By that I mean that there is something that must happen externally, that hope rests on progress or change or preservation of something sacred, however that is defined, change in the environment or climate, but in my opinion, humanity is asleep, and asleep partly because they believe this. In my view, when I say humanity is asleep, I mean programmed and by the condition or culture we grow up in. This means that change is mechanical. I have called this the phenomena that we create what we fear. This means that history sort of swings like a pendulum. The more fear of authoritarian dictatorship Trump creates on the left, the more the left feels entitled to violent resistance. We just saw all of this in the commentaries regarding the death of Winnie Mandela, a hero against racism and oppression who also condoned violence or as in the Maher piece justoh posted with some feminists feeling justified that some innocent men go down in the war against a patriarchal culture.
We create the world and it creates us, and all of it happens in our sleep because we do not understand that we are motivated by fear of pain. Our motivations at an unconscious level are to prevent ourselves from feeling the pain our environment causes us as children, that the real truth about ourselves is that what we feel is evil.
A population of sleeping robots hell bent on denial of their inner reality all the while seeking others to blame for that unconscious pain creates a world full of marching moronic monsters, you and me.
So we struggle to prevent self annihilation, but for how long and how successfully. For all of our efforts the environment is still deteriorating. Unfortunately, in my opinion, those who in the NY Times employee pool who call themselves 'Woke' are as asleep as the rest of us. They are just the pendulum starting to reverse.
In the East there is a thing called the Wheel of Karma from which only the enlightened can escape and it depends on seeing what is called there, I believe, the delusion of Maya.
In short, the only change that is possible for a human being begins and ends with himself or herself.
Only you can prevent forest fires. Only the individual can be free. Only the individual can escape the grasp of the machine. Only the One can see through and beat the Matrix. Only the individual can accept suffering without passing it on to others.
What can spur awakening as far as I can see is the utter rejection that there is hope, the frank admission of the disaster of our condition. Only when the ego faces it utter futility and hopeless condition can real transformation take place. Everybody is enlightened, the problem comes from not knowing it. Our only enemy is the stories we tell ourselves, knowing, believing, having opinions. We were expelled from the Kingdom of heaven as children because we reminded them of where heaven is and they couldn't take it.