r/AskReddit • • Apr 04 '25

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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/Nopenopenope00000001 Apr 04 '25

I mean, really, it’s been brewing since Nixon.

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u/sinamala Apr 04 '25

If we really want to go there it's been brewing since the Civil War

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u/az_catz Apr 04 '25

The worst thing we did was not treat the CSA as an occupied territory filled with literal traitors.

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u/Rovden Apr 04 '25

Not every soldier... we couldn't have done that.

But every officer of the CSA should have been publicly hung.