I wouldn’t count on a Democratic congress to do absolutely anything, unless you’re part of a specific minority in the US.
For everyone else on the planet any changes in US governments are marginal at best. They’ll still be exploited or worse.
The only ways out of this are mass uprisings or the US losing an all-out war.
Democrats had the chance to deal with Trump during Biden’s term and they just waffled around until the chance passed. Then he got elected a second time. As much as Americans want to waffle that they can’t do anything about it they can. They can vote in primaries, they can start grassroots campaigns, they can protest. All I’ve seen until now from the American people is that Simpsons line: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re out of ideas.” That doesn’t inspire confidence that things will change and other countries are noticing that.
There’s also the fact that Trump has a 30% approval rating. That’s unheard of in a democratic country. Merz in Germany, which is not even remotely close to being as bad as Trump has an 18% approval rating. Macron has a 17% approval rating. For a leader that Americans say is so unpopular 30% approval rating is huge, it’s a third of the country.
30% of people are authoritarians. They want to have someone order them around. They’re weak and have essentially joined a cult of personality. You can’t just get people to leave a cult. Reason and personal harm don’t phase them like it should. It’ll take removing the personality and then generations of dealing with the fallout as MAGA falls into small localized cults. It’s a historically long mess to deal with.
