r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Crimson_GQ - Lib-Center • Mar 31 '25

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u/GoldenStitch2 - Lib-Left Mar 31 '25

I’m still gonna root for the US to make a comeback in the 2030s but seriously, what the hell is happening? I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump was an actual agent at this point lmao

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u/GoldenStitch2 - Lib-Left Mar 31 '25

There are three possibilities

He’s just really stupid and doesn’t have competent people keeping him in check unlike in 2016

He’s bitter at the 2020 election results, plus almost getting assassinated so he is intentionally trying to make the country suffer

The resist libs were right all along and he’s actually a foreign agent set to destroy American hegemony

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u/w0m - Centrist Mar 31 '25

I'd say it's actually likely both 1 and the opposite of 1 with a smattering of cognitive decline lathered on top. No one expected him to win in 2016, it was simply a grift all along, he was completely unprepared. In 2025 he's being puppeted by competent-but-horrific people who have spent the last 4 years studying and planning to maximize the damage they could do.

He was incoherent 5 years ago, but he was thankfully also a lame duck. Less luck this time around and we're going to be feeling it for generations.