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A piece of American optimism:
America has been awful since the start, in one way or another. It was never going to change because the majority population was either comfortable enough, or scared enough of the minorities that they would accept a certain discomfort as long as their fellow man had it somehow worse.
Right now nobody is having a good time over there. We're approaching a breaking point. And that's scary, but it's also an opportunity to build a better world on the ashes of the old. We are on the verge of huge changes.
Change is no guarantee for improvement. Americans should not only protest the regime, but start preparing to rebuild. Get smart. Read your own history, especially the parts you're not proud of. If you don't know or fully understand those parts you will never manage to build wide alliances. Read postwar history, read about the French revolution and it's messy aftermath. Read Arendt, read Rawls, read Steinbeck and Locke. Prepare yourself to grasp this historic moment. You have an opportunity unlike anything since the 18th century to change America for the better. Don't waste it doomscrolling. Don't think you know enough already. Prepare yourself to be the kind of person who is needed once the regime falls.
You're not powerless—on the contrary, it's an historic opportunity. And in power there is hope.
European optimism:
After the events of the last few weeks I think a lot more people are fed up with this fascist bullshit, and it seems even Eurosceptics now believe we need to stand together in solidarity across the continent. It's a new European moment, and the American hegemony has been broken. I'm feeling genuinely optimistic.
The protests in Minnesota also fill me with joy.* I sincerely believe things are beginning to crack. Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu are all in extremely fragile positions, and dictators have famously poor life expectancy. Change is gradual, then sudden, and the destinies of these despots are intertwined. The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
* I wrote this before they ended in more killings. It's hard to see joy in it now, but I see equal amounts of hope.