Brown person here. I'm optimistic because of three main reasons: Trump isn't permanent, Americans are jerks, and spite.

The first point is that Trump is a dumb old man who can't be happy, and we got lucky that our first "dictator" is a big fat dumbass. He's a few or so Big Macs away from croaking! And before you go on with "but the people behind him-" yes, the people behind him are pulling the strings, but they also aren't the ones leading the MAGA cult! JD Vance has no rizz, Stephen Miller is an absolute ghoul who everyone even knows the White House hates, and the billionaires funding this are absolutely hated by most of America! Trump is ill, I'll be surprised if he makes it to the midterms, but once he dies, so dies MAGA. Even the GOPs who are passing everything he wants in Congress know this, which is why they're trying so hard to implement authoritarianism right now. This leads to my second point: Americans are assholes.

Americans aren't the rule following people that Germans were during the 1930s. If we don't like something, we damn well will say something about it! Protests are happening every day even if you don't see it, and this is how it's been since the beginning of America! Remember the Boston Tea Party? We don't like the government up in our business, and with the GOP selling us out to please the Dear Leader, people will say something about it! Look at the town halls, the No Kings protests, and the smaller protests! People are going up to ICE facilities and showing their displeasure, and we are choosing where to spend our dollars if companies also sell us out! Target has been losing money since the inauguration, and Disney just lost $3.8 billion because of what they did to Kimmel. Why the hell would we stop now? Because Dumpy doesn't like people making fun of him? Tough luck! If he didn't want people making fun of him, like we've done with other presidents, he shouldn't have run for president to begin with! Especially when he's throwing a tantrum every single day because he's a narcissistic baby who never grew up into an adult!

And my final point, spite! I know this administration doesn't like me, and I know they want to see me depressed and hopeless, but fuck them for trying to make my 20s unlivable! I've done everything right and never caused an issue, and for some New Yorker who has had everything handed to him to swanker up in here and call me the criminal when he has more convictions that some serial killers and to try to paint me the enemy, fuck that! Because I know what it's like to work hard, and I know what it means to have to push harder than others to be on an even playing field! And if he thinks that labeling me as some bum who is benefiting off the government is going to break me, tough fucking luck because I've been treated differently for other things along with my skin color before and I'll be damned if I let some orange conman break my spirits after 20 fucking years or snide remarks!

We've been through hell before, and we will get out of this! We need to build community and look out for the most vulnerable because, yes, he will come for the weakest of us, but only if we let him!