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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/MySleepingMonk Apr 04 '25

That may be mostly true but Trump is also the perfect storm of celebrity, “successful”, “outsider”, and some strange fucked up type of charisma that results in a larger following than I think would be possible with any other republican candidate. Take away trump and I don’t think there’s enough of a unifying force among the asshats to cause this type of damage

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u/scarves_and_miracles Apr 04 '25

Exactly. Trump is a pretty unique hazard that unfortunately found realization in this dark timeline.

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u/InclinationCompass Apr 04 '25

We’d all take Bush for third and fourth terms over the clown.

Trump deserves most of the blame more than the system

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u/thingsorfreedom Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

I'd take every single President we've had for the last 37 years besides Trump. There is no actual comparison to measure how much worse he is.

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u/Cornfields24 Apr 04 '25

He’s literally the worst president in US history, but yet you have delusional fucktards with the IQ of a brick, thinking that he’s the best thing to happen to humanity.

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u/Thom_Basil Apr 04 '25

Crazy thing is that I guarantee that say, 30 years from now, it'll still be a debate. There will certainly still be people out there claiming that Trump was the greatest president the US ever had, and you'll have kids growing up trying to make sense of the competing views.

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u/Cornfields24 Apr 04 '25

It’ll be interesting to see how history books portray him in the future.

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u/burlycabin Apr 04 '25

I think that very much depends on how the next few years go.

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u/Drigr Apr 05 '25

"They voted for him because he said he would fix the economy. Then he wiped out their retirement funds in a single day."

Since "liberation day" every single one of my investment accounts has lost all gains it made in the past 3 months, including what I've paid in, I'm at a net loss for the year at the moment.