We all got played to sole extent, basically.

However, the silver lining is that the events of emboldened the Technocrats to such a degree that they're bow abusing their power openly without regard to any optics and thus, the rest of the left leaning world is even calling them out on it.

I'd of never thought I'd see the day that Angela Merkel of all people, a literal Stasi in a country that actively censors it's own history - would stand up for Trump's freedom of speech and blast the social media cunts for going full tyrant.