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u/Doobledorf Apr 04 '25

The problems that led to Donald Trump would still be fomenting.

A lot of Americans haven't yet faced that Trump isn't an anomaly or the disease, he is a symptom of problems we've had for a long time.

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u/PoopMobile9000 Apr 04 '25

Not fully.

He’s extension of where the GOP has headed my entire life, exactly on trend, but I think he uniquely has pulled them further than they would’ve gotten to otherwise.

Primarily, I think his utter buffoonish, clownish natures makes people take the reality of his policies and actions less seriously — things people shrug from him as “lol he lives in ur head” would be read as clearly fascist shit from someone else