Where have all the protests gone? What has become of the so-called “resistance” to Donald Trump that erupted shortly after his election to the White House in 2016? The absence of social unrest — even mild social perturbation — in the wake of Trump’s restoration to the presidency is conspicuous. Perhaps it is the collective shrug from the American electorate that is leading Democrats inclined toward self-soothing rationalizations for Trump’s return to power not to anger but, rather, a sense of betrayal.
Today, a variety of enterprising political mercenaries are busily crafting excuses for the Democratic Party’s electoral misfortunes. That is unremarkable. What is unique in this moment, however, is the degree to which the excuse-makers are imbued not with resolve but resignation. The infidelity of the American electorate has come as a deflating shock. And that shock has imposed a crisis of faith on the former president’s most aggrieved opponents.
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