The Physical Weight of Trumpism

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The Physical Weight of Trumpism

January 9, 2026 at 11:13 am EST By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/01/09/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism/

Garrett Graff: “One constant theme of conversations I’ve had over the last year has been the physical heaviness people feel in Trump’s America. I certainly felt it yesterday in the wake of that horrific murder — there’s nothing else to call it — of a mother by an out-of-control ICE officer in Minneapolis…”

“To me, there’s actually a simple explanation for that heaviness: It’s the weight of the shift from ‘zero to non-zero.’ There are so many aspects of our daily life that we’d never had to weigh before; so many new possible horrors that we have to carry in our minds each day. We forget how much of the basic fabric of our country has been altered in the space of just a year, how many of our freedoms have been impinged, and how many things we took for granted that now we can’t.”

[Solly Mack]

1. The weight of oppression. It's real. It's damaging. It kills.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. This is how Black people and people of color move through U.S. culture. White people would be wise to read up on theory.

[leftstreet]

3. DURec

Much PTSD on the horizon

[rzemanfl]

4. I seem to have arrived at a point where I just hate everybody and

everything pisses me off. I can make exceptions for all but one of my lineal descendants, but patience is not my long suit these days.

Golden years my ass....

[Skittles]

5. I am sick of hearing about Trump literally every fucking day

it wears you down

[LeftinOH]

6. And ALL of the drama is one manufactured "crisis" after another. None of this

nonsense is based in reality.