The Question On Every American’s Mind: “Are We Out Of The Woods Yet?”
It has been a year since the actions of the 2024 Presidential Election took place. The level of anxiety and trepidation was unprecedented as voters went head to head over who would become the 47th President Of The United States.
According to data from a 2025 report from the Pew Research Center,
Recent presidential elections have featured a lot of continuity. In a politically polarized America, the vast majority of voters stick with the same party from election to election…but in a closely divided country, modest shifts have meant that control of the presidency has swung back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. Joe Biden won the 2020 election by 4.4 percentage points. Four years later, Donald Trump won by 1.5 points.
This is more than just about how he won. This is more than just about what has happened since he took office. This is all of that but also a checkpoint as to what has changed in this country. A government shutdown is occurring.
The cost of living has been impacted by tariffs. The unemployment rate has increased and has had a significant impact on Black professionals, especially Black women. And the state of the country has entered a peculiar state of existence.
Much like what happened with Hilary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, much of the reception surrounding the outcomes of the 2024 election gravitate largely around Harris’s election strategies, the limited 107 days she had to pull together a campaign, and whether or not Biden should have stepped down from the beginning.
With the Trump Administration reassuming office, government funding and employment has been threatened, a discourse between free speech and censorship has erupted,and millions of Americans have lost their jobs through layoffs and furloughs.
Halfway through the 2020s decade, the American public has witnessed a global pandemic, government shutdowns, several rounds of domestic and international unrest, climate disasters, and political unrest surrounding two Presidential Elections.
Loneliness and exhaustion is becoming in many people across all demographics and feelings of uncertainty fueled by an unstable economy and workforce has proven to have detrimental impacts on voters’ faith in the government and political system as a whole.
It has been a year since the 2024 Presidential Elections. The question on every American’s mind: “Are We Out Of The Woods Yet?”
