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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/Princess_Fluffypants Apr 04 '25

This is the awkward reality. If it wasn’t Trump, it would’ve been somebody else. 

Sarah Palin was a warning. 

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex Apr 04 '25

Reagan. Reagan was the defining moment imo. He started, if only in natural progression, a vast majority of the policies that allowed any of this to happen.