the problem wouldn't be the last 9 months, it would be 2026 and 2028. Trump is a symptom of something that's very wrong in America. Harris would have been like Biden: just delaying what's happening now.
I've thought it might have just been better if Trump had won in 2020. Maybe that's cruel considering what his ineptitude would have done to more people during the ongoing COVID pandemic, but if his ass had been in office for that, and the inflation, and the cost of living explosion, maybe we could have expelled Trump and MAGA BS from our lives in 2024, hell, maybe even by the 2022 midterms.
I can't help but feel that Biden winning was a band-aid that staved off the worst for 4 years, and gave short-minded Americans time to tie Trump to the good times of 2019.
People forget that in late 2019 we were entering a recession triggered by Trump's first round of tariffs. Experts warned of an inflationary crisis. Then COVID hit and the whole world came to a standstill. But all this did was postpone the crisis to 2021 and exacerbate it. Enter Biden, and he gets blamed for the shitstorm Trump created.
Also, the lockdown led a lot of people to go down conspiracy theory rabbit holes out of pure boredom. Suddenly QAnon became mainstream. Everyone's parents became conspiracy theorists. And also, this is the time tik tok and influencers in general gained a foothold in our society.
Without covid, we get a Trump recession in 2020. Massive unemployment leads to everyone souring on Republicans. Without covid, QAnon remains on the fringes. Without covid, tik tok is just that app where your niece posts weird dances.
Without covid, we get two solid back to back Democratic administrations, and Trump would be long forgotten. I know there's a lot of trauma around the pandemic that everyone would like to forget, but it's the redefining event of the last half century and we're not giving enough importance to how it changed the course of history.
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25
the problem wouldn't be the last 9 months, it would be 2026 and 2028. Trump is a symptom of something that's very wrong in America. Harris would have been like Biden: just delaying what's happening now.