When inflation rises and your household budget gets strained, remember who said our current President would bring down inflation on day one.
When you hear about crops not getting planted or rotting in fields because there's no one to pick them, remember who backed mass deportation and is trying to further restrict legal migration, despite being warned that would hurt the economy.
When unemployment, VA, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid checks don't arrive for your friends, family & neighbors, remember who said slashing those services was necessary to balance the budget, and that firing the federal workers who maintain those systems would save money.
When taxes are cut for billionaires, remember who prioritized those cuts over balancing the budget or paying for services used by your state and the working class.
When any woman or person of color is broadly slandered as a "DEI hire" despite exemplary records, and replaced with unqualified straight, white partisans, contemplate how much the skin tone, gender, sexuality or political leanings matter to you for the civil servants who feed, clothe & house the military, or who do agricultural & medical research, or who risk their lives to defend the country and your community.
When the US and Trump-aligned businesses lose trade wars with long-time allies, remember who started those wars while saying they were easy to win, and who endorsed multiple foreign dictators over the findings of the press and US intelligence agencies. Also contemplate the benefits the US has historically gained from favorable trade deals, and from military & intelligence bases on allies’ soil.
But don't just remember the current occupant of the White House. Remember all the people who helped to put him there. Remember which editorials, podcasts and politicians endorsed him. Remember his allies in Congress who repeatedly excused his lies and grift. Remember the Senators & Representatives who voted to acquit Trump during his first two impeachments despite naked corruption and law-breaking. Remember the businesses who sell and promote Trump merchandise, or who spread propaganda on his behalf.
Turn your back on them all. They were never your friends. They never will be your friends. They sought to manipulate you for their own ends. They still do.