We're really awake, and it's really a horror-show. We're learning in real-time how absolutely fucked we are as a species, and we were already in a pretty precariously fucked position already.
The amount of immediate sucking up that is happening is disgusting, but America was always willing to sell its soul for the dollar.
Once the Trump regime is in full swing, they'll be sending the military to capture or simply extrajudicially execute any journalists that aren't licking the boot.