We’re all trapped on Trump’s Crazy Train, at the mercy of an engineer who’s mad, mean and stupid.

Trump has no philosophy or ideology. His only governing principle is to hurt people he hates. And that’s a lot of people.

His tariffs are all about punishing countries he hates. He exempts those that flatter him, give him money or have something on him.

He hates – and attacks – federal employees, veterans, scientists, educators, judges, lawyers, journalists, healthcare workers, researchers, people who aren’t white, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Democrats and political opponents.

Many Americans support him because they hate the same people, and they love hearing his victims squealing.

Many of his supporters are just angry at a world that has been rough on them. He may hurt them even more than the people he hates.

The damage he’s doing will be deep and long-lasting, irreversible in some cases.

But resistance is rising.

Across America Saturday, five million-plus people protested Trump.

In Wisconsin and Florida last Tuesday, thousands of voters turned against him.

Republicans face a bloodbath in the 2025 and 2026 elections if they don’t stop this train and if the Democratic Party learns its lessons from 2024 and renews itself.

History teaches us that America has and can come through a lot.

We’ll come through this.

But what will we go through first?

ABC11 photo: Raleigh protest.