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My teen kids don’t remember a world not dominated by him. They don’t know what politics or public discourse was like before Trump. They are the generation whose brains have formed around this guy being the example of expected behavior from a leader. The implications of this are unknown and scary.

And to think it was likely an attention seeking publicity stunt to increase his “brand” - as I believe he was intending to start a news channel of his own & thought that a political campaign would be good for that. Instead-a decade of lies, attention seeking & irreparable harm to our country.

I’ll never forget… I thought he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell…then the debates, then the Access Hollywood tape, then the capitulation from the GOP. Trump is a horrible stain on the United States, who exposed our vulnerabilities and exposed the ultimate Republican values and morals.

Our vulnerability has been known since the original idea of democracy. Two months before he co-authored the Decl of Indep, John Adams wrote that, in a republic, all citizens must have a “positive Passion for the public good.” The “public Passion must be Superior to all private Passions" and -->

Americans must learn to “pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private Pleasures, Passions, and Interests.” Everyone must eschew “their private Friendships and dearest Connections when they Stand in Competition with the Rights of society.” -->

Adams feared the influence of the “Spirit of Commerce [which] corrupts the Morals of Families as well as destroys their Happiness.” A republic consumed by its citizens’ competing economic interests “would be very factious and turbulent,” with elections “much to be Dreaded.” -->

What do we do when their 'culture' = loss of rights? SBC had their big CONferene in Dallas... 10,000 'preachers' want marriage (a legal contract btw) to be ONLY for who they opt is allowed to wed. Same cult demands that NO WOMEN are to be pastors - at risk of accreditation with the 'mother shit'

I agree. If anything good comes out of this, the vulnerability’s are Now painfully obvious. And fixable, I believe. My dad told me - if you can’t figure out what’s wrong with something, wait till it breaks. Then you’ll know. Not endorsing that but, painfully, it worked. We’re in the painful part.

In a backhanded way he’s done us a favor, IF and only IF we use the experience to fine tune our democracy after he exposed all the weaknesses, vague norms and problems. We can learn from this and have a more effective democracy for the future. (If we survive the orange menace).

At the 1787 Const'l Convention, the Const'n's proponents wanted a House and Senate elected by popular vote, with electoral districts drawn according to population - not by State boundaries. Even slaveowning Virginians sought the end of slavery.

I was so disappointed that he won the election the first time. It's interesting that he just had a military parade coinciding with his birthday. And then the next day marks 10 years since he rode down that escalator at Trump Tower.

Like you had an opportunity to stop Hitler but you didn't because you thought it would make you look too "political". Biden's worst decision of his entire Presidency and it was a make good for Obama. I really wonder how he would have ruled as a SCOTUS Justice.

Like seriously. If Trump had not been such an asshole about the classified documents there would have not been any investigations. None. I wonder how different things would have been if Obama would have picked anyone other than this dickweed to be a SCOTUS justice. Like what the fucking fuck?

To an extent it was, but his competition didn't want to alienate the crazies, so they didn't call it out, expecting him to implode. Then he sort of won with the this one is not like the other strategy.

I remember - everyone thought the whole Trump campaign was one big joke and that he absolutely had no chance of winning. I mean - who in their right mind would vote for him?

A vile, contemptible bottom-feeder—utterly devoid of decency or intellect. A revolting narcissist and shameless fraud, infamous for predatory behavior and flagrant disrespect toward all. A convicted criminal whose staggering stupidity is rivaled only by his authoritarian leanings.