Tradition and New Normals

Tradition is important, but once tradition is broken, there is no real way to go back. It is like Covid. Back in 2020, everyone was saying we could return to normal—the old days—within a few months.

But that never happened. Whatever was broken was changed forever. Our new generation has spent so much time at home and online, and everything from school to work to shopping has shifted. Real life no longer feels fully “real” to many people, and many now view online life as the more real life.

And if we look at our political landscape, we have had the MAGA movement for over 10 years already. A lot of people still believe that after Trump is gone, we can go back to the past. That will never happen. First of all, we have to understand that the new generation has been watching Trump for 10 years.

The way he talks, acts, and interacts with everyone is deeply ingrained in many young people. People will think that is how politicians should act, and that they can also talk and treat people that way. And they will forever view presidential power as something so strong that it cannot be stopped.

Too many traditions have been broken, and there is no way to go back. It is impossible to ask one side to follow traditions when the other side has already broken almost all of them. The other side will come back even stronger, and eventually all we will see are new norms.

That might be good, or it might be bad. But for people who think we can simply restore everything, I would say that is pretty naive. We cannot rebuild the old system. We can only recreate a new normal. There is no way to go back to 2015, before all of this began.