This week, Donald Trump announced crippling and ill-advised tariffs on every import to the United States. On nearly everyone—on nearly everything. Food. Medicine. Electronics. Clothing. Cars. It was a reckless move with no plan behind it. Just another one-man show dressed up as economic strategy. And the consequences were immediate and brutal: the stock market crashed 8.8%. Retirement accounts were gutted. Grocery and gas prices are already projected to climb again. Millions of Americans braced for a financial gut punch they didn’t cause and can’t afford. There is talk of recession and possibly even depression.
And Trump grinned and played golf.
Because he didn’t care about you. It wasn’t about policy. It wasn’t about protecting workers or rebuilding industry. It was about spectacle. About being seen as the tough guy. The dealer-in-chief. The man with the magic pen who can bend the world with a tariff or a tweet. And we fell for it—again. The news cycle lit up like a flare. Think pieces. Hot takes. Panic. Outrage.
Meanwhile, while we watched, argued, reposted, and fumed, nothing got built. Nothing got fixed. Nothing changed.
And that’s the trick, isn’t it?
Trump and his loyalists have figured out that distraction is a pretty good shield. While we’re busy reacting, they’re busy rearranging. While we’re caught in the churn of fury, they’re hollowing out institutions, stacking courts, silencing watchdogs, and normalizing the unacceptable. Every day brings a new fire, and we keep rushing in with buckets—never doing anything to stop the people lighting the matches.
It’s like we’re stuck in an endless loop of a dystopian reality television show.
It’s time to change the channel.
Because the real story isn’t what Trump breaks next. It’s what we build next.
Are we organizing? Are we leading? Are we stepping into the space that’s been left hollow by a government too busy collapsing in on itself?
We weren’t raised to lead. Most of us were raised to wait. Wait for a savior. A leader. A party. A plan. But none of them are coming. It’s us. It’s always been us.
We are the ones who write the future. Or we let someone like him write it for us.
That’s why I’ve been talking about Blue Key Democracy. It’s not a hashtag. It’s a strategy. A blueprint for power that doesn’t wait for permission. A structure that allows people—ordinary people—to lead. To act. To make decisions. To hold each other accountable. To build the communities and systems they want to live in.
But this doesn’t have to be about Blue Key. It can be anything—as long as it’s something you lead, something you own, something you build without asking anyone if you’re allowed.
Because we don’t need more resistance.
We need leadership. We need people to step up and build the world. They want to live in regardless of who is trying to unbuild it.
The truth is, Donald Trump can crash the markets. He can shout and distract and destroy. But he can’t stop you from organizing. He can’t stop you from forming a leadership group in your neighborhood. He can’t stop you from feeding your neighbors, teaching your kids, powering your block, choosing your future.
The next revolution won’t be televised.
It will be structured. Protests make us feel good, but they don’t get anything done. Governments don’t give a shit about protests. They’ve baked it into the recipe. They’ve even baked a few deaths into the recipe. Protests don’t change anything. Structured activism – – building the environments we want to live in regardless of government is the only solution they have not accounted for and that they cannot stop.
So yes—he caused the market to crash. Again. What are we gonna do about it?
Now change the channel.
Ultimately, what we do or fail to do will prove itself far more important than what he and his minions do or fail to do.
So, protest if it makes you feel good, but if you want real change, get to work.
CALL TO ACTION
- Decide what kind of world you want to live in. Don’t just hope. Design it. Name it. Envision it.
- Gather your five. Build a unit of leadership. One mission. Five people. One action each.
- Structure it. Choose a leader. Rotate. Assign accountability. You don’t need credentials to lead—just courage and clarity.
- Set a 30-day goal. Make it visible. Track it. Complete it. Then do it again, bigger.
- Teach the structure. Spread it. Scale it.
This isn’t a movement you join. It’s a future you build.
Trump can dominate the headlines.
But we will own the history.
And that starts now. With you.
