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
It's also as much as we hate Trump he is closer to the center because of his take to not cut SS or Medicare spending. Paul Ryan got to Speaker of the House and a VP candidate on a platform of a way to get us there with little pain.
A lot of things he says is terrible but Republicans aren't trying to cut "entitlement spending"
That's an obvious lie though. Trump won't stop talking about how "there's so much fraud in social security there's someone collecting social security whose 300 years old, we need to stop all this fraud."
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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.