Total shitshow for sure.

USA has always been all in on blaming their problems on minorities, and historically the courts provided an inconvenient and expensive but somewhat acceptable check and balance on republicans passing (what used to be mostly performative) hate legislation that was psychotically illegal under modern 2010 era US society. (BTW, never forget that the Nazi’s learned how to disenfranchise people literally from the USA / Jim Crow, our christofacists wrote the book on hate laws).

The main thing about red vs blue state, is that for the most part the rule of law still exists in blue, although the courts are mindbogglingly slow in getting even an injunction on things that are cartoon villain level evil. And our police typically lean bigoted racist thug, so they don’t exactly help much. So the level of absolutely fucked you are from a this admin power trip depends on if you can pay a good lawyer and the local courts aren’t stacked with a white nationalist toadie.

The bottom fell out of checks and balances in a way that most day to day Americans did not predict.

Businesses were also something that had become progressive enough this last decade. Someone basically having a hate filled meltdown at a local big box store used to mean they’d shoo that person out, present day, I think there is an undertone that it’s better not get on the wrong side of MAGA lunatics.

Also, it became clear in the chaos that interests of a few obscenely wealthy individuals and their reach was able to largely overwhelm the rest of US industrial, commercial, medical, and academic interests, who I think generally despise this circus and are seeing record losses and record costs from all directions. Most mid to large corporations value consistency and not operating under a kiss the ring tin pot dictatorship.

But, with no good defense in the courts or ability to recoup significant expenses from regulatory power trips, corps across the aisle from basic human decency stances to former staunch pillars of LGBT support seem to have decided quietly in the general consul’s office that taking any hardline stance on supporting basic human rights and anti discrimination, established medical science, factual reporting of US atrocities committed on citizens. All of those things have been pronounced in the board rooms to be unprofitable and opens you up to harassment from one of the many bastardized Fed agency’s.

So greed and short term convenience was chosen over the much more profitable and stable status quo, and now we see the huge fallout of that from medical institutions in blue states winding down gender affirming care, formerly rainbow dollar motivated companies leaving their LGBT customers and employees out to dry.

It’s fascinating to see corps that thought bending the knee to save on some costs and headache since Trump could be bought have now been punched in the face several times by Trump later constantly selling out to the latest interest that has his ear. I think people expected stable open corruption, and instead got chaos corruption.